Never help out a sneer, even at the devil. The lone and level sands stretch far away. Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!' The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed: Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,Īnd wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Who said: "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Here is that famous sonnet "Ozymandias" by Percy Shelley, written in January 1818, nearly 200 years ago. Vanity, false pride and arrogance never win, in my view. Nature and Time always prevail and overtake ultimately, when nothing remains of those great empires or the arrogant leaders.and only the lone and level sands stretch far away. I often think of Shelley's famous insightful sonnet "Ozymandias" that brilliantly depicts the inevitable fall of all foolishly arrogant leaders and their huge empires built in pretensions to their self-proclaimed greatness. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn it can be stabbed to death by a joke or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow. Only little boys and old men sneer at love.Ī new idea is delicate. The world goes up and the world goes down, the sunshine follows the rain and yesterday's sneer and yesterday's frown can never come over again. You ought to inclue that the Filipinos disregarded this term because they too were mistreated by the Americans. I had no power over one muscle in their faces, though they sneered at every word spoken by each other. 'With utter scorn' Miller (Author in footnote) said that the military greeted Taft's comments 'with utter scorn', his views were not popular, so therfore I erased the word 'popular'. I have not been sneering fulsome lies, and nauseous flattery, at a little tawdry whore.
If there has been any thing expressed with too much severity, it will fall upon those sneering or daring writers of the age against religion, who have left reason and decency.
I could be content to be a little sneered at in a line, for the sake of the pleasure I should have in reading the rest. The wolf was by, and the fox in a sneering way advised him not to irritate a prince against his subjects. To insinuate contempt by covert expressions. To show contempt by looks: naso suspendere adunco. Isaac Watts.Įtymology: This word is apparently of the same family with snore and snort. Socrates or Cæsar might have a fool’s coat clapt upon them, and in this disguise neither the wisdom of the one nor the majesty of the other could secure them from a sneer. A look of contemptuous ridicule.Īlexander Pope. Samuel Johnson's Dictionary (0.00 / 0 votes) Rate this definition:Įtymology: from the verb.
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