BATHOS

Jack's Reference Book for Home and Office : An Encyclopaedia of General Information: General Information · 1909 · p. 3

a sudden descent from tt sublime to tho ridiculous, Usually th fault is committed unwittingly by write aspiring to be impre ive, but Byron b: a fine satirical cxample:— “ With eagle pinions soaring to the skie Behold the ballad-monger Southey rise. [s. 65]