 | Robert Peel - 1843 - Počet stránok 504
...ministry, referring to which Mr. Burke spoke of the cabinet as being " like a tesselated pavement, — here a bit of black stone, and there a bit of white ; that it was most dangerous to look on, and most dangerous to handle. It was of exquisite workmanship,... | |
 | J. R. Miller - 1844 - Počet stránok 742
...dovetailed ; a cabinet so variously inlaid ; such a piece of diversified Mosaic ; such a tesselated pavement, without cement; here a bit of black stone,...patriots and courtiers ; king's friends and republicans ; whigeand lories ; treacherous friends and open enemies ; that it was indeed a very curious show ;... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - Počet stránok 746
...dove-tailed ; a cabinet so variously inlaid ; such a piece of diversified mosaic ; such a tesselatcd he tomb, I rise and upbuild it again. ; king 's friends and republicans ; Whigs and Tories ; treacherous friends and open enemies ; that... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - Počet stránok 738
...dove-tailed ; a cabinet so variously inlaid ; such a piece of diversified mosaic ; euch a tesselated ou lockest in thy beauty from the clouds, * tremblest at the gates of the ; patriote and courtiers ; king's friends and republicans ; Whigs and Tories ; treacherous friends... | |
 | William Howitt - 1846 - Počet stránok 376
...: a piece of 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... | |
 | William Newland Welsby - 1846 - Počet stránok 584
...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... | |
 | Henry Theodore Tuckerman - 1849 - Počet stránok 290
...sea-shore of Europe." His description of Chatham's administration is felicitous in another vein: "A cabinet so variously inlaid, such a piece of diversified mosaic,...and there a bit of white — patriots and courtiers, kings, friends, and republicans, whigs and tories," &c. In relation to the English cluba of French... | |
 | 1849 - Počet stránok 820
...another vein : " a cabinet so 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 — patriots and courtiers, kings, friends and republicans, whigs and tories," &c. In relation to the English clubs of French sympathizers,... | |
 | 1840 - Počet stránok 524
...speckled ; he put together a piece of joinery so crossly indented and whimsically dovetailed ; a cabinet so variously inlaid ; such a piece of diversified...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... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1851 - Počet stránok 528
...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... | |
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He made an administration, so chequered 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... 
