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

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