All 8 Uses of
compassion
in
Mansfield Park
- And you may say, if you please, that I shall prepare my most plaintive airs against his return, in compassion to his feelings, as I know his horse will lose.†
Chpt 6 *
- And so saying, she walked hastily out of the room, leaving awkward feelings to more than one, but exciting small compassion in any except Fanny, who had been a quiet auditor of the whole, and who could not think of her as under the agitations of jealousy without great pity.†
Chpt 14
- With no material fault of temper, or difference of opinion, to prevent their being very good friends while their interests were the same, the sisters, under such a trial as this, had not affection or principle enough to make them merciful or just, to give them honour or compassion.†
Chpt 17
- Many uncomfortable, anxious, apprehensive feelings she certainly had; but with all these, and other claims on her time and attention, she was as far from finding herself without employment or utility amongst them, as without a companion in uneasiness; quite as far from having no demand on her leisure as on her compassion.†
Chpt 18
- She was nearly fainting: all her former habitual dread of her uncle was returning, and with it compassion for him and for almost every one of the party on the development before him, with solicitude on Edmund's account indescribable.†
Chpt 19
- She must be courteous, and she must be compassionate.†
Chpt 33
- All this became gradually evident, and gradually placed Susan before her sister as an object of mingled compassion and respect.†
Chpt 40
- Let Sir Thomas trust to his honour and compassion, and it may all end well; but if he get his daughter away, it will be destroying the chief hold.'†
Chpt 47
Definition:
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(compassion) sympathy for another's suffering and wanting to help