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Word: mosaic (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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...alleged authority of any record or of any organization. This is what I mean to express in these two squares of metrical lines, wrought in the painful prolixity of the sonnet, a form of verse which suggests a slow minuet of rhythms stepping in measured cadences over a mosaic pavement of rhymes, and which not rarely combines a minimum of thought with a maximum of labor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SEAL OF HARVARD COLLEGE. | 4/5/1878 | See Source »

...placed in Memorial Hall is another sample of American work, and shows what a state of perfection the art of making stained-glass windows has attained in Boston alone. The present window was executed by the well-known firm of W. J. McPherson & Co., and is the first purely mosaic stained glass window ever erected in this country. By mosaic stained-glass window we mean one wherein all the effect of light and shade is obtained, not by the use of paint, but by the sole use of various colored glasses so disposed that the effect is similar to most...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 10/15/1875 | See Source »

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