Which preposition to use with pathos
The very fact of this whole-hearted girl giving up her life for the cause of Christ, and the pathos of her untimely end, did more to touch the hearts of multitudes than perhaps the most apparently successful accomplishment of her mission would have done.
There is ever a pathos in the life of the wise.
One, kneeling to a lyre, touched the strings, Muffling to death the pathos with his wings, And ever and anon uprose to look At the youth's slumber; while another took A willow-bough distilling odorous dew, And shoot it on his hair; another flew In through the woven roof, and fluttering-wise Rained violets upon his sleeping eyes.' 1. 2.
We have thus pathos at once practical and poetic,pathos at once the most affecting and the most ideal,coming from a heart rich with all human charities, and gaining worthy and immortal form by means of a subtile, deep, cultivated imagination.
"that the profane songs of Little have more pathos than the sacred songs of Moore; or that the sacred songs of Moore have more sentiment than the profane songs of Little?" "A good deal of both, marm, and something to spare.
There was a pathos about Cissie.
His eyes appealed with dumb pathos to the group on the bank.
The long series of designs for Crucifixions, Depositions from the Cross, and Pietàs which we possess, all of them belonging to a period of his life not much later than 1541, prove that his nature was quite as sensitive to pathos as to terror; only, it was not in him to attempt a combination of terror and pathos.
I can understand an elegy over a broken pitcher when you behold the shards for the first time; but to go on with the same pathos over a much mended pitcher, looks more like a comic opera.
At a little distance were some very commonplace and disjointed fragments of building, one of them suggesting a certain pathos by its very commonness and the complete wreck which it showed.
"At last, laying my hand on his shoulder, and throwing considerable pathos into my voice, I said: "My friend, it was not always thus with you.
The deep heart-laughter of Cervantes, the pathos on which his humor rests, is, of course, not to be looked for in Butler.
Pathos like this may affect women, and people of weak nerves, with sickness at the stomach;it may move those of stouter fibre to scornful derision; but we doubt whether, in the whole extensive circle of novel readers, it has ever drawn a single tear.
The translucence had a pathos for his intelligence which the pensive tilt of her head enhanced.
He will find there some little stories which have a pathos beyond tears; some factshappening, mayhap, within ten minutes' walk of his own firesidequite as strange as the strangest fiction of Mr. Cobb or Mr. Emerson Bennett.