 | Alfred George Gardiner - Great Britain - 1923 - 642 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 and there a bit of white (cheers and ironical cheers and- laughter) ; patriots and courtiers, King's friends and Republicans... | |
 | Philip Guedalla - Literary Criticism - 1924 - 308 pages
...whimsically dove-tailed ; a cabinet so variously inlaid ; such a piece of diversified Mosaick ; such a tesselated pavement without cement ; here a bit of black stone, and there a bit of white . . . that it was indeed a very curious show ; but utterly unsafe to touch, and unsure to stand on.... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1925 - 826 pages
...dull surface of his Treasury Bench was richly inlaid with the iridescence of Charles Townshend . . . ' here a bit of black stone and there a bit of white. . . .' The party system was challenged by t miscellany which nothing but its leader's name could render... | |
 | Philip Guedalla - United States - 1926 - 352 pages
...proceed through a long succession of Elegant Extracts, to study a complete mosaic of prize declamations, here a bit of black stone, and there a bit of white, patriots and courtiers, King's friends 129 and . . . how grossly infectious the habit is. One could forgive him a century of quotations. But... | |
 | Hugh Alexander Law - English literature - 1926 - 332 pages
...piece of diversified mosaic ; such a tesselated pavement without cement — here, a bit of black stone, there a bit of white — patriots and 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... | |
 | Philip Guedalla - United States - 1926 - 366 pages
...dull surface of his Treasury Bench was richly inlaid with the iridescence of Charles Townshend . . . "here a bit of black stone and there a bit of white. ..." The party system was challenged by a miscellany which nothing but its leader's name could render... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1927 - 464 pages
...whimsically dovetailed, so variously inlaid, such a piece of diversified mosaic, such a tesselated pavement, here a bit of black stone and there a bit of white — that it is, indeed, a very curious show. But from the industrial standpoint, with the entry of... | |
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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 ;... 
