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Updated: June 19, 2025
He often brings his tiresome extravaganzas to a magnificent climax of melody, and just as often concludes an inimitable chant with a most contemptible bathos.
He went through it all; he rose to eloquence in describing our departure from Forstadt. This scene ended, he seemed conscious of a bathos. It was in a dull, rather apologetic tone that he concluded by remarking: "Their Majesties will arrive at Artenberg at seven o'clock, and will partake of dinner."
Ducaine here together in your present mood." He laughed harshly. "Are you afraid for your lover?" he asked. "I promise you that I will hold his person sacred." "Lady Angela," I begged. "Please leave us. Then came an interruption so unexpected and yet so natural that the whole scene seemed at once to dissolve into bathos. The door was thrown open, and a footman ushered in callers.
He said the affair was vulgar, and he sent her a large diamond bracelet, and never spoke to her again!" Tamara felt her cheeks burn and her pride galled her more than ever. So she and the ex-dancer were in the same boat? but she at least would not try to commit suicide and be restored by salad oil! "How perfectly ridiculous!" she said, with rather a bitter little laugh. "What complete bathos!"
Deeply sensible of "the anti-climax, the abysmal bathos" of the answer, Coleridge replied, "Only fourpence, each number to be published every eighth day," upon which the tallow-chandler observed doubtfully that that came to "a deal of money at the end of the year."
Cigars and stable-talk are all that remain to him; and it is well for him if he can refrain from the additional excitement of brandy and water. But on the present occasion we will not presume that our friend has fallen into so deep a bathos of misfortune.
"Oh, bathos!" said Lady Bath, while the 'prentices shouted applause. "Is this hedge-bantling to be fathered on you, Mr. Frank?" "It is necessary, by all laws of the drama, madam," said Frank, with a sly smile, "that the speech and the speaker shall fit each other. Pass on, Earl Ordulf; a more learned worthy waits."
We hadn't yet got rid of Hsiang Ling with all her rubbish, and here we have a chatterbox like you thrown on us! But what is it that that mouth of yours keeps on jabbering? What about the bathos of Tu Kung-pu; and the unadorned refinement of Wei Su-chou? What also about Wen Pa-ch'a's elegant diction; and Li I-shan's abstruseness? A pack of silly fools that you are!
When the Silly Season is at its very bathos; when the monster gooseberries have gone to seed and the showers of frogs ceased to fall; after the matrimonial efforts of Margate or Scarborough, and before the more decided business of the Christmas Decorations, then there is deep mystery in the penetralia of every parish.
And the descent from the "assassin of the hopes of women" to "the reptile in the path" struck her as a silly bathos. Suddenly, a reverie a waking dream fell upon her, a visionary succession of sights and sounds. A dying sunset and a rising wind, sighing through dense trees old walls the light from a kitchen window voices in the distance the barking of a dog.... "Oh Gertrude! how late I am!"
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