anvil-chorus

Updated: May 1, 2025

But inside, like every Court, it was a den of quibble, quarrel, envy, and the hatred which, tinctured with fear, knocks an anvil-chorus from day-dawn to dark. A thousand people made up the household of Philip the Fourth. Any one of these could be dismissed in an hour the power of Olivarez, the Minister, was absolute. Very naturally there were plottings and counterplottings.

Elbert Hubbard - Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 06 : Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Artists