 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1925 - 826 páginas
...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... | |
 | Hugh Alexander Law - 1926 - 332 páginas
...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...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,... | |
 | Philip Guedalla - 1926 - 352 páginas
...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... | |
 | Philip Guedalla - 1926 - 366 páginas
...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) - 1927 - 464 páginas
...Cabinet, so chequered and speckled, a piece of joinery so crossly indented and 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... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1927 - 464 páginas
...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... | |
 | Robert Henry Murray - 1931 - 436 páginas
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 | Hugh McDowall Clokie - 1936 - 164 páginas
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... 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, king's friends and republicans ; whigs and tories ; treacherous... 
