T is pitiful To court a grin when you should win a soul; To break a jest when pity should inspire Pathetic exhortation; and to address The skittish fancy with facetious tales When sent with God's commission to the heart!
Again you beseech your waiter with pathetic indignation, to 'see after that cutlet!
As first heard, funny; but after all showing a pathetic side, a childhood without childhood's freedom from care.
A child of eight puts in a pathetic plea worth considering for the Prudy books, "because I understand them better than any books I have read.
In rummaging among his recollections he found nothing pleasant, apparently, for when he turned his face to Silas it showed the quivering and pathetic distortion which precedes an open burst of grief.
He did not do this rudely, but there was a pathetic thoughtfulness in his face which caused the girl to remain silent while he visited other scenes.
Lashing their boats together, the rowers gulled back to town without speaking a word; that containing the body of Allan Dorris towing behind, the pathetic face looking up to heaven, as if asking forgiveness.
The wood-pewee, the prevailing species in this locality, arrests your attention by his sweet, pathetic cry.
Everywhere in these solitudes I am greeted with the pensive, almost pathetic note of the wood-pewee.
It was really pathetic in its sweetness and childlike confidence and joy.
Grey-headed men, wonderfully pathetic in their dissipation, stared at her through clouds.
Smooth-cheeked boys, some of them with faces of stone and mouths of sin, not nearly so pathetic as the grey heads, tried to find the girl's eyes in the smoke wreaths.
Such mothers are like Chinese teacups, with no perspective and everything out of proportion; where the Mandarin is as big as the Pagoda, and suffers from a pathetic inability to get in at his own door.
A more concise or supremely reticent description of the pathetic drama there could not be.
Her pathetic peroration: "Child of my shame, be still the child of my shame," touches the deepest chords of human sorrow and anguish.
Pathetic Description of the Present State of Mr George Alexander.
There is something intensely pathetic in the picture of Convict 33 writing to know what the foremost critics of the most artistic city in Europe have to say concerning the child of his brain.
He himself told Monsieur Andre Gide a strange and pathetic story of those silent, unhappy hours.
The authoress has not so many "flourish of trumpets" as some others, but her Muse is pathetic and heartfelt.
Mr. Sullivan is known all over the world, wherever Irishmen congregate, by his fine and stirring humorous and pathetic ballads for the Irish people.
I do not think there is a more pathetic story in the history of literature than that which I have to tell of the last few weeks of Burton's life.
The pathetic self-devotion of Antigone, the voice of the city, the remonstrances of Haemon, and the warnings of Teiresias are all thrown away upon his stubborn and conceited obstinacy.
This contrast between the polished sententiousness of Horace and the patheticoutcry of Catullus marks the difference between two classes of poets to whom Horace and Alcaeus, Sappho and Catullus, respectively belong.
The elegiac had fulfilled the requirements of pathetic or contemplative meditation.
If this reading of the Prometheus be accepted, it will be seen that the whole trilogy involved the deepest interests, the mightiest collision of wills, the most pathetic situations, and the most sublime of reconciliations.
Very sad and pathetic is the tone of these old songs, wherein the paean mingles with the dirge; for youth and the grave are named in the same breath, and while we smell the roses we are reminded that they will wither.
This tender and regretful strain is repeated by Mimnermus with a monotonous, almost pathetic persistency, as if the one thought of inevitable age oppressed him like a nightmare day and night.
There, is a pathetic sense of man's frailty and mortality.
There are pathetic and noble voices of seekers after God, which when they do not gladden yet strengthen and purify, and which catch at moments an exquisite tone of peace and joy.
The sense of a tragedy in herself, more pathetic than any she has depicted, touches us with awe, with tenderness, with compunctious thought of our own failures.
The pathetic sight of the beautiful woman kneeling on the ground, offering up that fervent prayer, had touched their hearts, and more than one brushed their sleeves across their eyes when safe under the friendly cover of darkness.
In the midst of this pathetic scene one man had lifted his head and was listening as if to a voice from the far-off sea, while in his dull, stupid eye the gleam of a new light could be dimly discerned.
Both remained silent a few moments and listened to the singing of Don Serapio, who was lamenting always with a more and more pathetic accent the solitude and sadness in which his mistress kept him.
The artist will therefore not follow too closely the printed version; but following the evident indications for a pathetic and expressive cantabile will perform it thus: [Music: Ah!
Their feverish attempts to find some sunshine in life every evening, the desperate and futile migrations they make each few months, and the pathetic mental deadness of their gatherings, they try to keep private.
Rich women, alone with their mail on a bright sunny morning, must learn to throw even the most pathetic circulars in the waste-paper-basket.
This worthy wife threw herself at her father's feet, bedewed them with tears, and in the most pathetic manner, implored him to commisserate her sorrow, and pardon her husband.
On the day of execution, he took a pathetic leave of his fellow-prisoners.
More possessed of his usual immobility, he remarked: "I must be a fool, a great, pathetic fool.
And I believe it will, too," she added, feeling how pathetic it was that Aunt Rose had never looked half so well during Uncle Martin's life as she had since his death.
In the silence that fell they could hear old Molly bellowing with pathetic monotony for her calf that had been taken from her.
In later ages more accomplished artist often repeated the composition, but none ever attained to the simple dignity and pathetic beauty of Giotto's design.
I am haunted by the painful recurrence of that blanched, hopeless, beautiful face, which reminds me of a pathetic picture I saw abroad--Charlotte Corday peering through the bars of her dungeon window.
Only the pathetic patience of a sublime surrender was visible on her frozen features.
As Mr. Dunbar noted the solemn repose, the pathetic grace with which she endured the symbols that emblazoned her ignominous doom, a dark red glow suffused his face, a flush of shame for the indignity which he had been impotent to avert.
Only the pathetic piping of the lonely bird made answer.
The pathetic pleading of face and voice almost unnerved him, but he sat silent.
In 1675 she made a pathetic appeal for relief, and the miserable pittance of fourteen sous a week was accorded her.
This story is the only begetter of the large army of patheticfigures of failure that crowd the pages of Russian literature.
At home he spent a moment in the kitchen pantry while the cook was in the cellar; then he went out to the stable and began some really pathetic experiments.
Certainly they did not know the singular and pathetic history of the old horse who wandered into the alley and ventured to look through the open door.
Pathetic attitudes are not in keeping with greatness; he who needs attitudes is false.
No one can point to any moment of my life in which I have assumed either an arrogant or a pathetic attitude.
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