 | William Howitt - 1846 - 376 strani
...joinery ciossly indented and whimsically dovetailed ; a piece of diversified mosaic ; a tessellated pavement without cement; here a bit 'of black stone, and there a bit of white ; papists and courtiers ; king's friends and republicans ; whigs and tones ; treacherous friends and... | |
 | John Britton - 1848 - 164 strani
...dovetailed; a cabinet so variously inlaid ; such a piece of diversified mosaic ; such a tessellated pavement without cement; here a bit of black stone,...show; but utterly unsafe to touch, and unsure to stand on."J Lord Chatham's ill health compelled him to retire from active employment in September, 1766,... | |
 | John Britton - 1848 - 168 strani
...dovetailed ; a cabinet so variously inlaid ; such a piece of diversified mosaic ; such a tessellated pavement without cement ; here a bit of black stone,...show; but utterly unsafe to touch, and unsure to stand on."J Lord Chatham's ill health compelled him to retire from active employment in September, 1766,... | |
 | 1849 - 820 strani
...felicitous in another vein : " a cabinet so variously inlaid, such a piece of diversified mosaic, such a tesselated pavement without cement — here a bit...and there a bit of white — patriots and courtiers, kings, friends and republicans, whigs and tories," &c. In relation to the English clubs of French sympathizers,... | |
 | Henry Theodore Tuckerman - 1849 - 296 strani
...another vein : " A cabinet so variously inlaid, such a piece of diversified mosaic, such a tessellated pavement without cement — here a bit of black stone...and there a bit of white — patriots and courtiers, kings, friends, and republicans, whigs and tories," &c. In relation to the English clubs of French... | |
 | Edward Shepherd Creasy - 1850 - 532 strani
...whimsically dovetailed ; a cabinet so variously inlaid ; such a piece of diversified mosaic ; such a tesselated pavement without cement ; here a bit of black stone, and tbere a bit of white ; patriots and courtiers, King's friends and republicans ; Whigs and Tories ;... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1851 - 570 strani
...whimsically dovetailed ; a Cabinet so variously " inlaid; such a piece of diversified mosaic; such a " tesselated pavement without cement, here a bit..." but utterly unsafe to touch and unsure to stand " on."f * Mr. Rigby to tbe Duke of Bedford, Oct. 13. 1761. Bedford Correspondence, vol. iii. p. 56.... | |
 | Philip Henry Stanhope (5th earl.) - 1851 - 588 strani
...whimsically dovetailed ; a Cabinet so variously " inlaid; such a piece of diversified mosaic; such a " tesselated pavement without cement, here a bit..." but utterly unsafe to touch and unsure to stand " on."t * Mr. Rigby to the Duke of Bedford, Oct. 13. 1761. Bedford Correspondence, vol. iii. p. 56.... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1851 - 528 strani
...depicted by Burke as " a cabinet so curiously inlaid — such a piece of diversified mosaic — such a tesselated pavement without cement — :here a bit of black stone, and there a bit of white, which had a chance of coherence only from the controlling genius of its franier," — when, by fresh... | |
 | 1840 - 524 strani
...dovetailed ; a cabinet so variously inlaid ; such a piece of diversified mosaic; such a tessellated pavement without cement; here a bit of black stone, and there a bit of rhite; patriots and courtiers, king's friends and republicans, whigs and lories, treacherous friends... | |
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He made an administration, so checkered and speckled ; he put together a piece of joinery, so crossly indented and whimsically dove-tailed ; a cabinet so variously inlaid ; such a piece of diversified Mosaic ; such a tesselated pavement without cement... 
