"Scorner" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... disregardful of restriction, who neglected punctuality in the performance of his exercises, while he spent his leisure in translating half of Pliny's history, should win the approbation of pedagogues. At the same time the inspired opponent of the fagging system, the scorner of games and muscular amusements, could not hope to find much favour with such martinets of juvenile convention as a public school is wont to breed. At Eton, as elsewhere, Shelley's uncompromising spirit brought him into inconvenient ...
— Percy Bysshe Shelley • John Addington Symonds
... than all measures Of delightful sound, Better than all treasures That in books are found, Thy skill to poet were, thou scorner of the ground! ...
— The Golden Treasury - Of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language • Various
... Apostate spirits' harden'd tool! Scorner of God, scourge of the poor! The measure of thy cup ...
— The Children's Garland from the Best Poets • Various
... cadence. White and drawn was the face of the High Priestess—white and drawn with unrequited love and hideous terror of the moments to come. Yet stern in her resolve was La. The infidel should die! The scorner of her love should pay the price upon the fiery altar. She saw them lay the perfect body there upon the rough branches. She saw the High Priest, he to whom custom would unite her—bent, crooked, gnarled, stunted, hideous—advance with the ...
— Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar • Edgar Rice Burroughs
... hedge for DYKE to take, and he went over in plucky style that threw the scorner off his trail. Didn't live in close communication with DIZZY through six long years for nothing. Not likely to forget what happened in very earliest days of Parliament of 1874, when DIZZY for first time found himself not only in office but in power. During election campaign DIZZY, ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 100, June 20, 1891 • Various
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