Themes -- Sympathy
Sympathy: the cardinal human virtue of the Enlightenment, the basis of all fellow feeling.
Benevolence
Sensibility
Letter 2.2
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("Communication")
Letter 4.1
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("Diverted our solicitude")
Letter 4.4
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("Benevolently")
Letter 4.5
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("Sympathy and compassion")
Letter 4.6
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("Not so utterly occupied")
Letter 4.6
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("A friend")
Letter 4.9
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("Fate")
Letter 4.9
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("My friend")
Letter 4.9
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("What interest and sympathy")
1.1.2
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("His daughter attended him")
1.3.7
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("To procrastinate")
1.4.2
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("To detain me")
1.4.7
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("Henry was my only nurse")
1.5.4
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("Justine was very ill")
1.5.9
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("Your gentleness and affection")
1.6.4
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("Sympathy")
1.6.8
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("I resolved to remain silent")
1.6.9
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("Kneeling by the coffin of her dead father")
1.6.10
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("All at once become so extremely wicked")
1.6.11
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("Indeed every human being")
1.7.3
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("I have no enemy on earth")
1.7.5
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("The blackest ingratitude")
1.7.9
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("How sweet is the affection of others")
1.7.10
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("Make others so")
1.7.10
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("The misery that I then endured")
1.7.10
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("Torn by remorse, horror, and despair") [1831 only]
2.1.3
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("I could not consent to the death")
2.1.3
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("When falsehood can look so like the truth")
2.1.4
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("Revenge")
2.2.4
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("Miserable beyond all living things")
2.2.5
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("There can be no community")
2.2.6
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("Love and humanity")
2.2.7
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("Thy compassion")
2.4.2
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("This trait of kindness")
2.4.4
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("I sympathized")
2.4.7
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("The art of language")
2.5.4
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("The hapless fate of its original inhabitants")
2.6.6
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("Safie nursed her")
2.7.2
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("I sympathized")
2.7.5
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("Benevolent dispositions")
2.7.6
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("I required kindness and sympathy")
2.7.8
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("A feeling and kind friend")
2.7.8
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("The hearts ... charity")
2.7.9
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("Judge ... misfortunes")
2.8.1
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("Unsympathized with")
2.8.8
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("A deep and deadly revenge")
2.9.1
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("As a right")
2.9.1
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("Sympathies necessary for my being")
2.9.2
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("Benevolence")
2.9.2
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("Interchange of kindness")
2.9.3
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("Compassion")
2.9.4
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("Meet with sympathy")
2.9.7
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("I had no right to claim their sympathies") [1831 only]
3.1.7
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("Human sympathies")
3.2.7
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("Suffering blunt")
3.3.1
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("Sympathies")
3.3.2
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("His countenance")
3.3.2
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("The fishermen called to one another")
3.3.4
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("Feelings of affection")
3.3.5
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("Tears ... streamed from my eyes")
3.4.5
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("So unfeeling a speech")
3.4.6
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("The sympathy of a stranger")
3.4.9
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("My friends")
3.5.1
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("Even to the most repulsive among them") [1831 only]
3.5.6
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("Real insanity possessed me")
3.7.1
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("It modelled my feelings")
3.7.3
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("Who feared that if I lost all trace I should despair and die")
3.7.5
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("What his feelings were")
Walton 1
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("Senseless curiosity")
Walton 2
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("Interest for my guest")
Walton 2
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("Eloquence")
Walton 3
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("I have longed for a friend")
Walton 4
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("A sister or a brother")
Walton 5
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("The tenderest compassion")
Walton 13
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("A mixture of curiosity and compassion")
Walton 13
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("The voice of conscience")
Walton 15
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("I seek not a fellow-feeling in my misery")
