With this Thought he called Renatus to his Bed-side, and bespoke him in the most pathetick Gesture and Accent.
How pathetick is that Expostulation of Job, when, for the Tryal of his Patience, he was made to look upon himself in this deplorable Condition!
The Reader will find in it that Pathetick Simplicity which is so peculiar to him, and so suitable to the Ode he has here Translated.
There is something so pathetick in this kind of Diction, that it often sets the Mind in a Flame, and makes our Hearts burn within us.
In this Case, if any Man has declared the Violence of his Flame in more pathetick Terms, he is made President for that Night, out of respect to his superior Passion.
Let me close the scene on that unfortunate House with the elegant and pathetick reflections of Voltaire, in his Histoire Generale.
He could not represent a succession of pathetick images.
I endeavoured to defend thatpathetick and beautiful tragedy, and repeated the following passage: '".
The pathetick simplicity and pastoral gaiety of the Scots musick will always please those who have the genuine feelings of nature.
Such was his sensibility, and so much was he affected by pathetick poetry, that, when he was reading Dr.
The rest goes on to a prodigious height; and a man in Greenland could hardly have made a morepathetick and terrible complaint.
The master knew not well whither to go; and our difficulties might, perhaps, have filled a very pathetick page, had not Mr. Maclean of Col.
Heroe standing under the Load of them could have more effectually mov'd his Spectators by the most pathetick Speech, than poor miserable Nokes did by this silent Eloquence and piteous Plight of his Features?
The truth is, that they are so much changed by the course of time, that pleasantry and ridicule become dull and flat much more easily than the pathetick becomes ridiculous.
His comick scenes are happily wrought, but his pathetick strains are always polluted with some unexpected depravations.
He is not long soft and pathetick without some idle conceit, or contemptible equivocation.
I have chiefly followed Livy in his beautiful relation of this affair, as the description he gives of this unhappy object, is not only much more striking than that of Dionysius, but one of the most pathetick I ever met with in history.
How does he labour for expression in his pathetick enumeration of the horrible consequences of faction, after his description of the destructive sedition at Corcyra!
The Poet Quintilius Varus, the relation and intimate friend of Virgil and Horace; of whom the latter lamented his death in a pathetick and beautiful Ode, still extant in his works.
In the Recitative of Cantata's, our Author excelled in a singular Manner for the pathetick Expression of the Words.
That They never be repeated in the same place, particularly in Pathetick Airs, for there they are the most taken Notice of by the Judicious.
The Contr'Alto more of the Pathetick than the Volubility; the Tenor less of the Pathetick, but more of the Volubility than the Contr'Alto, though not so much as the Soprano.
Let him continually, by himself, use his Voice to a Velocity of Motion, if he thinks to have a Command over it, and that he may not go by the Name of a pathetick Singer.
This assertion concerning Johnson's insensibility to the pathetick powers of Otway, is too round.
I am far from suspecting, that such an appearance of zeal can conceal any private views, or that such pathetick exclamations can proceed but from a mind really affected with honest anxiety.
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