All 10 Uses of
compassion
in
Great Expectations
- Joe and I going to church, therefore, must have been a moving spectacle for compassionate minds.†
Chpt 4 *
- As I passed the church, I felt (as I had felt during service in the morning) a sublime compassion for the poor creatures who were destined to go there, Sunday after Sunday, all their lives through, and to lie obscurely at last among the low green mounds.†
Chpt 19
- —Joseph!" said Mr. Pumblechook, in the way of a compassionate adjuration.†
Chpt 19
- My earnestness awoke a wonder in her that seemed as if it would have been touched with compassion, if she could have rendered me at all intelligible to her own mind.†
Chpt 44
- "Look here," said Herbert, showing me the basket, with a compassionate and tender smile, after we had talked a little; "here's poor Clara's supper, served out every night.†
Chpt 46
- As I stood compassionating her, and thinking how, in the progress of time, I too had come to be a part of the wrecked fortunes of that house, her eyes rested on me.†
Chpt 49
- And could I look upon her without compassion, seeing her punishment in the ruin she was, in her profound unfitness for this earth on which she was placed, in the vanity of sorrow which had become a master mania, like the vanity of penitence, the vanity of remorse, the vanity of unworthiness, and other monstrous vanities that have been curses in this world?†
Chpt 49
- There was an earnest womanly compassion for me in her new affection.†
Chpt 49
- "If you knew all my story," she pleaded, "you would have some compassion for me and a better understanding of me."†
Chpt 49
- Softened as my thoughts of all the rest of men were in that dire extremity; humbly beseeching pardon, as I did, of Heaven; melted at heart, as I was, by the thought that I had taken no farewell, and never now could take farewell of those who were dear to me, or could explain myself to them, or ask for their compassion on my miserable errors,— still, if I could have killed him, even in dying, I would have done it.†
Chpt 53
Definition:
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(compassion) sympathy for another's suffering and wanting to help