 | William Newland Welsby - Judges - 1846 - 584 pages
...pleasantly depicted 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," — and of which the only chance of coherence lay in the controlling genius of its framer, as soon... | |
 | William Howitt - Aristocracy (Social class) - 1846 - 376 pages
...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... | |
 | George Vandenhoff - Elocution - 1847 - 396 pages
...whimsically dove-tailed — a cabinet so variously inlaid — such a piece of diversified mosaic — such a tesselated pavement without cement ; here a bit...courtiers, king's friends and republicans ; whigs and tories ; treacherous friends and open enemies ; — that it was, indeed, a very curious show, but utterly... | |
 | William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - Great Britain - 1848 - 208 pages
...which Burke some years afterwards so happily described as "such a piece of diversified .Mosaic; such a tesselated pavement without cement ; here a bit...courtiers, King's friends and republicans ; Whigs and Tories ; treacherous friends and open enemies ; that it was indeed a very curious show ; but utterly... | |
 | John Britton - Great Britain - 1848 - 168 pages
...dovetailed ; a cabinet so variously inlaid ; such a piece of diversified mosaic ; such a tessellated pavement without cement ; here a bit of black stone,...courtiers; King's friends and Republicans; Whigs and Tories ; treacherous friends and open enemies, that it was indeed a very curious show; but utterly... | |
 | American periodicals - 1849 - 602 pages
...administration. He did so, " and produced," says Burke, " such a piece of diversified mosaic, such e royal offspring of the House of Brunswick, the heirs of the Princess Sophia, of their fairest Tories, treacherous friends and open enemies ; that it was, indeed, a very curious show, but utterly... | |
 | Literature - 1849 - 820 pages
...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 - English literature - 1849 - 296 pages
...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 - Eton College - 1850 - 528 pages
...and whimsically dovetailed; a cabinet so variously inlaid; such a piece of diversified mosaic; such a tesselated pavement without cement; here a bit of...courtiers, King's friends and republicans; Whigs and Tories; treacherous friends and open enemies; that it was indeed a very curious show; but utterly unsafe... | |
 | Edward Shepherd Creasy - Eton College - 1850 - 532 pages
...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 ;... | |
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He made an administration, so checkered and speckled ; he put together a piece of joinery, so crossly indented and whimsically dovetailed ; a cabinet so variously inlaid; such a piece of diversified Mosaic; such a tesselated pavement without cement ;... 
