Sir Walter, being strangely surprised and put out of his countenance at so great a table, gives his son a damned blow over the fac...e. His son, as rude as he was, would not strike his father, but strikes over the face the gentleman that sat next to him and said "Box about: 'twill come to my father anon."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For poetry was all written before time was, and whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region where t...he air is music, we hear those primal warblings, and attempt to write them down, but we lose ever and anon a word, a verse, and substitute something of our own, and thus miswrite the poem.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am the family face; Flesh perishes, I live on,... Projecting trait and trace Through time to times anon, And leaping from place to place Over oblivion.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
So in majestic cadence rise and fall The mighty undulations of thy song,... O sightless bard, England's Monides! And ever and anon, high over all Uplifted, a ninth wave superb and strong, Floods all the soul with its melodious seas.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
This is mere madness, And thus a while the fit will work on him.... Anon, as patient as the female dove When that her golden couplets are disclosed, His silence will sit drooping.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If you want to use a cliché you must take full responsibility for it yourself and not try to fob it off on anon., or on society.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The handsomest and most interesting flowers were the great purple orchises, rising ever and anon, with their great purple spikes p...erfectly erect, amid the shrubs and grasses of the shore. It seemed strange that they should be made to grow there in such profusion, seen of moose and moose-hunters only, while they are so rare in Concord.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »