![]() ![]() ![]() Had Lydia's marriage been concluded on the most honourable terms, it was not to be supposed that Mr. Yes I feel now that I was right when I adhered to principle and law, and scorned and crushed the insane promptings of a frenzied moment. There had been a time when he would have scorned her as a companion, and turned from her with little ceremony. (The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle) “He is surely some very great man, for he looks as though he scorned those who were about him.” You know your castle wouldn't be perfect without, said blunt Jo, who had no tender fancies yet, and rather scorned romance, except in books. Natives who beat drums to drive off evil spirits are objects of scorn to smart Americans who blow horns to break up traffic jams.I have shut them up by a charm between two mountains, said the dwarf, because they were proud and ill-behaved, and scorned to ask advice. Let none with scorn a suppliant meet, Or from the door untended spurn A dog an outcast kindly treat And so thou shalt be blest in turn. In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart here, and scorn to fly.Īffliction hardens and discourages us because, like a red hot iron, it stamps the soul to its very depths with the scorn, the disgust, and even the self-hatred and sense of guilt that crime logically should produce but actually does not.” He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune drop at his feet. He is unwise who brags much either of what he will do or what he shall have, for if what he speaks of fall not out accordingly, instead of applause, a mock and scorn will follow him.Īs a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not. When a man has a project in his mind, digested and fixed by consideration, it is wise to keep it secret till the time that his designs arrive at their despatch and perfection. The hooting fowler seldom takes much game. Our soul is filled with the scorning of those that are at ease, and with the contempt of the proud.įame, that delights around the world to stray, He said mine eyes were black, and my hair black ![]() My friends scorn me but mine eye poureth out tears unto God. To despise to slight to revile to vilify to contemn.Įtymology: schernen, Dutch escorner, French. Numidia’s grown a scorn among the nations Is it not a most horrid ingratitude, thus to make a scorn of him that made us? Francis Bacon.īut fann’d the fuel that too fast did burn. Whosoever hath any thing in his person that induces contempt, hath also a perpetual spur to rescue himself from scorn: therefore all deformed persons are bold, as being on their own defence as exposed to scorn. Jud.ĭiogenes was asked in scorn, what was the matter that philosophers haunted rich men, and not rich men philosophers? He answered, because the one knew what they wanted, the others did not. If we draw her not unto us, she will laugh us to scorn. Why should you think that I should woo in scorn? ![]() Than in the pride and salt scorn of his eyes. Unto thee will I cry, O Lord: think no scorn of me, lest if thou make as tho’ thou hearest not, I become like them that go down into the pit. If he do fully prove himself the honest shepherd Menalcas his brother and heir, I know no reason why you should think scorn of him. Samuel Johnson's Dictionary Rate this definition: 0.0 / 0 votesĬontempt scoff slight act of contumely.Įtymology: escorne, old Fr. ![]()
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