 | Thomas Smart Hughes - 1846 - 546 pages
...ingeniously compared to a cabinet variously inlaid, or to a tesselated pavement without cement : ' here a bit of black stone, and there a bit of white...courtiers; king's friends and republicans; whigs and tories ; treacherous friends and open enemies : so that it was indeed a very curious show, but utterly... | |
 | 1846 - 578 pages
...variously 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...courtiers, king's friends and republicans ; Whigs and Tories ; treacherous friends and open enemies ; that it was indeed a very curious show; but utterly... | |
 | George Vandenhoff - 1846 - 398 pages
...variously 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...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 Howitt - 1846 - 376 pages
...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... | |
 | William Newland Welsby - 1846 - 576 pages
...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... | |
 | George Vandenhoff - 1847 - 396 pages
...variously 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...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) - 1848 - 208 pages
...happily described as "such a piece of diversified .Mosaic; such a tesselated pavement without cement ; here a bit of black stone, and there a bit of white...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 - 1848 - 168 pages
...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...courtiers; King's friends and Republicans; Whigs and Tories ; treacherous friends and open enemies, that it was indeed a very curious show; but utterly... | |
 | 1849 - 602 pages
...produced," says Burke, " such a piece of diversified mosaic, such a tesselated pavement without cement ; here a bit of black stone, and there a bit of white...courtiers, king's friends and Republicans, Whigs and Tories, treacherous friends and open enemies ; that it was, indeed, a very curious show, but utterly... | |
 | Henry Theodore Tuckerman - 1849 - 288 pages
...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... | |
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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 ;... 
