All 7 Uses
pathos
in
A Passage to India
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- He had seen the quatrain on the tomb of a Deccan king, and regarded it as profound philosophy—he always held pathos to be profound.†
Chpt 2 *
- They were overwhelmed by its pathos; pathos, they agreed, is the highest quality in art; a poem should touch the hearer with a sense of his own weakness, and should institute some comparison between mankind and flowers.†
Chpt 9
- They were overwhelmed by its pathos; pathos, they agreed, is the highest quality in art; a poem should touch the hearer with a sense of his own weakness, and should institute some comparison between mankind and flowers.†
Chpt 9
- Coming at a moment when she chanced to be fatigued, it had managed to murmur, "Pathos, piety, courage—they exist, but are identical, and so is filth.†
Chpt 14
- He could only express pathos or venom, though most of his life had no concern with either.†
Chpt 30
- Bulbuls and roses would still persist, the pathos of defeated Islam remained in his blood and could not be expelled by modernities.†
Chpt 34
- It interrupted less here than in Europe, its pathos was less poignant, its irony less cruel.†
Chpt 36
Definitions:
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(1)
(pathos) a quality that arouses pity or sorrow
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)