bathos

• The last line is a delightful bathos, adding immensely to the completeness of the catastrophe. —  Grain and Chaff from an English Manor
• It insists that men should not mistake, as they are prone to mistake, their natural taste for the bathos for a relish for the sublime; and if statesmen, either [lvi] with their tongue in their cheek or through a generous impulsiveness, tell them their natural taste for the bathos is a relish for the sublime, there is the more need for culture to tell them the contrary. —  Culture and Anarchy
• Pope's bathos, in his lines to Murray: — 'Graced as thou art with all the power of words, —  Life Of Johnson
• Like Browning, he wrote too much to write well at all times, and if both poets were capable of the sublimest flights, they likewise descended to unimagined depths; but the fault of Wordsworth was perhaps the greater, because his bathos was the result of a deliberate and persistent attempt to enrich English poetry with prosaically versified incidents drawn at length from homely rural life. —  Early Reviews of English Poets
• Nevertheless, I toiled on, a rebel against that fearful Power, and deprived of her wonted aid: my songs, invita Minerva, are but bald translations of those heavenly welcomings: my humble pyramid, far from being the visioned apotheosis of that of a Cephren, bears an unambitious likeness to the meaner Asychian, the characteristic of which, barring its presumptuous motto, must be veiled in one word from Herodotus (2-136), — alas! for the bathos of translation, the cabalistic — [Greek: phelikos], 'built up of mud.' —  My Life as an Author

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