Nevertheless, the time came when the scorner recanted his renunciation.
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Long ago oppressor and oppressed, prophet and scorner, had been dust.
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And he, the scorner of women, had chosen her for his homage!
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In them Hogarth the artist and Hogarth the fighter and scorner mingle.
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The scorner of her love should pay the price upon the fiery altar.
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Frank is a little late in joining this throng in Mr. Ives's version: Man scorner and man trap meet cute by exchanging bubbling streams of poisonous verse.
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Being an examination of Mr. Campbell's attempt to explode the Scripture Doctrine of human depravity, the Atonement, &c.;, two pamphlets on the Socinian controversy, both published at Newcastle in 1813; #The Scorner reproved, Newcastle, 1817. #A letter to the Rev. W. Turner.
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Thus Rabbi Joshua concluded that the words of "A scorner seeks wisdom, and finds it not," applied to Pharaoh's magicians, while the continuation of the verse, "But knowledge is easy for him who has discernment," applied to Joseph.Genesis Rabbah 89:6. Reprinted in, e.g., Midrash Rabbah: Genesis.
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Despite royal patronage and encouragement, there was never any overt mandate to use the new translation. It was not until 1661 that the Authorized Version replaced the Bishops Bible in the Epistle and Gospel lessons of the Book of Common Prayer, and it never did replace the older translation in the Psalter. In 1763 The Critical Review complained that "many false interpretations, ambiguous phrases, obsolete words and indelicate expressions ... excite the derision of the scorner". Blayney's 1769 version, with its revised spelling and punctuation, helped change the public perception of the Authorized Version to a masterpiece of the English language.
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Drummond noted he was "a great lover and praiser of himself, a contemner and scorner of others". On returning to England, he was awarded an honorary Master of Arts degree from Oxford University. The period between 1605 and 1620 may be viewed as Jonson's heyday. By 1616 he had produced all the plays on which his present reputation as a dramatist is based, including the tragedy Catiline (acted and printed 1611), which achieved limited success and the comedies Volpone (acted 1605 and printed in 1607), Epicoene, or the Silent Woman (1609), The Alchemist (1610), Bartholomew Fair (1614) and The Devil Is an Ass (1616).
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Baron Henry then takes Otto captive to his own fortress, Castle Trutzdrachen ("Dragon-scorner," in German). In the dungeon of his castle, Baron Henry explains to Otto that he has sworn a solemn oath that any member of Baron Conrad's House who fell into his hands would never be able to strike a blow like the one which killed his uncle, Baron Frederick. Because Otto is so young, the Baron keeps this oath by cutting off his right hand instead of killing him, and as an afterthought has a healer sent to tend to him. While Otto is feverish from the pain of his wound, he is comforted by Baron Henry's eight-year-old daughter Pauline, who visits his cell.
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His scorn culminates in an attack on the quackery which he sees behind the pronouncements: > And it seems to me that you are no better than the so-called marvel-mongers, > nay not even than the rest of the quacks and sophists. At them, however, I > do not wonder, that they abandon men for pay; but I do wonder at you, the > god, and at mankind, that they pay to be abandoned.Eusebius, Praeparatio > Evangelica, book v. 29. Naturally, not everyone in the Roman world was impressed Oenomaus' thoughts; the Emperor Julian accused him of impiety: > Let not the Cynic be shameless or impudent after the fashion of Oenomaus, a > scorner of all things divine and human: rather let him be, like Diogenes, > reverent towards the divine.
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Historian and critic Lord Macaulay described the character as "a man proud, moody, cynical, with defiance on his brow, and misery in his heart, a scorner of his kind, implacable in revenge, yet capable of deep and strong affection".Christiansen, 201 Byron's poems with Oriental settings show more "swashbuckling" and decisive versions of the type. Later works show Byron progressively distancing himself from the figure by providing alternative hero types, like Sardanapalus (Sardanapalus), Juan (Don Juan) or Torquil ("The Island"), or, when the figure is present, by presenting him as less sympathetic (Alp in "The Siege of Corinth") or criticising him through the narrator or other characters.Poole, 17 Byron would later attempt such a turn in his own life when he joined the Greek War of Independence, with fatal results,Christiansen, 202 though recent studies show him acting with greater political acumen and less idealism than previously thought.
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The protagonist of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage embodied the example of the self- exiled Byronic hero.cf. ¶ 3 in the article on the topic from the Norton Anthology of English Literature His antinomian character is summed up in Lord Macaulay's essay on Moore’s Life of Lord Byron (Edinburgh Review, 1831). "It is hardly too much to say that Lord Byron could exhibit only one man - a man proud, moody, cynical, with defiance on his brow, and misery in his heart; a scorner of his kind, implacable in revenge, yet capable of deep and strong affection…It is curious to observe the tendency which the dialogue of Lord Byron always has, to lose its character of dialogue and to become soliloquy."Lord Macaulay, Essays, Critical and Miscellaneous, Philadelphia 1846, pp.125, 126 The type was caricatured as the melancholy Mr Cypress in Thomas Love Peacock's Nightmare Abbey, published in 1818, following the appearance of the Pilgrimage's Canto IV.Peter Cochran, The Burning of Byron’s Memoirs: New and Unpublished Essays and Papers, Cambridge Scholars 2015, p.
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