chizzel

Updated: June 15, 2025

A stately palace composed the body of the place, and in that palace were porticoes, galleries, halls, and chambers, of an admirable beauty; all was cut in the living stone, and wrought so curiously, that the works seemed to be cast within a mould, and not cut by the chizzel.

John Dryden - The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 16