 | Edmund Burke - 1837 - 744 trang
...dove-tailed ; a cabinet so variously 170 171 inlaid ; such a piece of diversified Mosaick ; such a tesselated ed. He had yet another farthing-candle lories ; treacherous friends and open enemies ; that it was indeed a very curious show ; but utterly... | |
 | Sir James Prior - 1839 - 646 trang
...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 open enemies ; that it was indeed a very curious show ; but utterly unsafe to touch and unsure to stand on. The colleagues whom he had assorted at the... | |
 | Thomas Keightley - 1839 - 568 trang
...which was ingeniously compared by Mr. Burke to an inlaid cabinet, or a tesselated pavement, with " here a bit of black stone, and there a bit of white...and tories; treacherous friends and open enemies." The duke of Grafton was placed at the head of * There was a general suspicion that he still in secret... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1839 - 746 trang
...then read the extract, in which Mr. Burke spoke of the Cabinet as being " like a tessalated pavement, here a bit of black stone and there a bit of white ; that it was most curious to look upon, and most dangerous to handle. It was of exquisite workmanship... | |
 | George Croly - 1840 - 612 trang
...whimsically dove-tailed, a cabinet so variously inlaid, such a piece of diversified mosaic, such a tesselated pavement without cement, here a bit of black stone...and open enemies, that it was indeed a very curious show, but utterly unsafe to touch and unsure to stand on. The colleagues whom he had assorted at the... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1840 - 658 trang
...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 open enemies ; that it was indeed a very curious show ; but utterly unsafe to touch, and unsure to stand on. The colleagues, whom he had assorted at... | |
 | George Croly - 1840 - 334 trang
...whimsically dove-tailed, a cabinet so variously inlaid, such a piece of diversified mosaic, such a tesselated pavement without cement, here a bit of black stone...and open enemies, that it was indeed a very curious show, but utterly unsafe to touch and unsure to stand on. The colleagues whom he had assorted at the... | |
 | 1840 - 700 trang
...dove, tailed : a cabinet so variously inlaid ; such a piece of diversified mosaic ; such a tessellated pavement without cement ; here a bit of black stone,...treacherous friends and open enemies ; that it was : was not the eldest son, but that he could serte his country in the House of Commons like his papa."... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1840 - 536 trang
...dove-tailed: a cabinet to variously inlaid ; such a piece of diversified mosaic; such a tessellated pavement without cement ; here a bit of black stone,...patriots and courtiers, king's friends and republicans ; whig* and tories ; treacherous friends and open enemies ; that it was indeed a very curious show... | |
 | John Adolphus - 1840 - 646 trang
...patriots and courtiers ; King's 17e7. " friends and republicans ; whigs and tories ; treacher" ous friends, and open enemies ; — that it was indeed...shew, but utterly unsafe to touch and " unsure to stand on." The same author, pursuing the subject, has observed, " when his Lordship had " executed... | |
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... 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 to touch, and unsure to stand on. 
