All 5 Uses of
scorn
in
Faust -- Part 1 -- translated by Theil
- Excuse me, fine harangues I cannot make,
Though all the circle look on me with scorn;
My pathos soon thy laughter would awake,
Hadst thou the laughing mood not long forsworn.†scorn = disrespect or reject as not good enough
- The crowd's applause assumes a scornful tone.†
*scornful = full of strong disrespect or rejection
- Vainly I have aspired too high;
I'm on a level but with such as thou;
Me the great spirit scorn'd, defied;
Nature from me herself doth hide;
Rent is the web of thought; my mind
Doth knowledge loathe of every kind.†scorn'd = disrespected or rejected
- I've not a doubt
That my two gentlemen are nobly born,
They look dissatisfied and full of scorn.†scorn = disrespect or reject as not good enough
- —On yon threshold he stood;
Amidst all the howling of hell's fiery flood,
The scoff and the scorn of its devilish crew,
The tones of his voice, sweet and loving, I knew.†