I’m not a native language carrier obviously, so I ask those who are. Shouldn’t it be “Look upon me IN despair”? Or is this correct? If so, I’d like to know in what circumstances and context you say that =)
No, it’s correct.
I guess it’s like saying “Look upon me and rejoice in my coming for I am the lord, your god.”
It’s not every day English, but it is English; just a more esoteric use of the language.
guess despair´s meant as a verb here…
No, this is right. It would have a similar context or meaning as “Look upon me and cower”.
The people above are wrong in their examples.
It is more like “Look upon me and feed me ice cream”, obviously.
patiently waits to be fed ice cream
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Wait, so he’s bringing Joyce along? I KNEW she was going to horn in on the party. 
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Well that escalated quickly!
Anyway, thanks for the insight folks. You learn something everyday don’t you?
Was kinda stupid of me not thinking of this word as a verb =\ Or birb?
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Merde! 
Meant rejoice - brain failure again.
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A same usage of ‘‘Despair’’ from a poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley called Ozymandias;
''I met a traveller from an antique land,
Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;
And on the pedestal, these words appear:
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.”
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Wow, that’s a good one. And by some miraculous coincidence I was listening to a song by that same name (Ozymandias) just today!
@Ceno, I know what despair is, but thanks anyway XD It’s just mah brain matter becomes tainted brain matter sometimes y’know?
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I’m pretty sure Ajax says something similar, if not the same in the movie Troy
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Спасибо, но мы как-то без Википедии обошлись =)