Perhaps this was because he saw the surname as an especially important component of the name: surnames were, he declared, "especially respected as whereon the glory and credit of men is grounded, and by which the same is conveyed to the knowledge of posterity".
So spoke the Fairy in "Queen Mab":There's not one atom of yon earth But once was living man; Not the minutest drop of rain That hangeth in its thinnest cloud, But flowed in human veins… Thou canst not find one spot Whereon no city stood.Ruins of this sort were everywhere in Shelley.
The authors of the paper quote Ben Graham, the doyen of share analysts, as saying the market is not a weighing machine but a "voting machine whereon countless individuals register choices which are partly the product of reason and partly the product of emotion".Even professional fund managers may have good reasons for following a fad.
The interest will begin accruing one month after the conclusion of your course and repayment one month after that: if your course finishes at the end of September, the government covers your interest until the end of October (whereon you being accruing the interest) and you won't begin repaying until the end of November.
Patrick wanted us to talk about the metaphor of the beloved object as text ("thou art the book, / The library whereon I look").
She turned and looked at me on the opposite side of our bed, whereon her long-departed Swedish grandmother had spent her first marriage night long ago.
Since thy untimely fate My task hath been to meditate On thee, on thee: thou art the book, The library whereon I look Though almost blind.... 'Tis true, with shame and grief I yield, Thou like the Vann first took'st the field, And gotten hast the victory In this adventuring to dy Before me, whose more years might crave A just precedence in the grave.
Among the enigmas, lines of an unreal, fairy-tale beauty emerge: "When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes"; "I summon up remembrance of things past"; "That this huge stage presenteth nought but shows / whereon the stars in secret influence comment"; "Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul / Of the wide world dreaming on things to come".
The medieval part of his imagination, his delight in lists of local flowers ("I know a bank whereon the wild thyme blows / where oxlips and the nodding violet grows"), the light of fairy tale and fable that shines through all his comedies, was haunted by the old faith and its rituals.
Devotees are specific about whereon the body the crop top should hit.
Images of heaving ocean swells shot from a swimmer's point of view and of a beachcomber with a metal detector imply some kind of quest like a search for the Holy Grail, which turns out to be Plymouth Rock, the boulder whereon, legend has it, the Pilgrims first alighted in the New World, now a sadly nondescript tourist attraction.
