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" His gardens next your admiration call; On every side you look, behold the wall! No pleasing intricacies intervene, No artful wildness to perplex the scene ; Grove nods at grove, each alley has a brother, And half the platform just reflects the other. "
The works of the English poets. With prefaces, biographical and critical, by ... - Page 140
by English poets - 1790
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Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Alexander Pope, Esq, Volume 2

William Ayre, Edmund Curll - Poets, English - 1745 - 426 pages
...look, behold the Wall ! No pleafing Intricacies intervene, No artful Wildnefs to perplex the Scene ; Grove nods at Grove, each Alley has a Brother, And half the Platform juft reflecTs .the other. x The fuffr'ing Eye inverted Nature fees, Trees cut to Statues, Statue* thick...
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The Works of Alexander Pope Esq, Volume 3

Alexander Pope - English literature - 1751 - 274 pages
...the unanirnated parts, how huge foever, are not members of grandeur, but mere heaps of littlenefi. Grove nods at grove, each Alley has a brother, And half the platform juft refleds the other. The fuff'ring eye inverted Nature fees, Trees cut to Statues, Statues thick as trees...
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. ...: Moral essays

Alexander Pope - 1751 - 272 pages
...littlenefs around, ] Grandeur in building, as in the human frame, takes not its denomination from the Grove nods at grove, each Alley has a brother, And half the platform juft refleas the other. The fuff'ring eye inverted Nature fees, Trees cut to Statues, Statues thick as trees...
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Moral essays

Alexander Pope - 1752 - 378 pages
...admiration call, On ev;ry fide you look, behold the Wall ! No pleafing Intricacies intervene, 115 No artful wildnefs to perplex the fcene; Grove nods at...each Alley has a brother, And half the platform juft reflects the other. The fuff'ring eye inverted Nature fees, Trees cut to Statues, Statues thick as...
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The works of Alexander Pope. With his last corrections, additions ..., Volume 3

Alexander Pope - 1754 - 238 pages
...admiration call, On ev'ry fide you look, behold the Wall! No pleafmg Intricacies intervene, I15 No artful wildnefs to perplex the fcene ; Grove nods...brother, And half the platform juft reflefts the other. VER. 117, 118. Grove nods at grove, each Al'ey bas a brother, And half the platform jufi rtfleSs the...
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The Works of Alexander Pope: Moral essays

Alexander Pope - English literature - 1757 - 234 pages
...admiration call, On ev'rjtfide you look, behold the Wall ! No pleafing Intricacies intervene, 1 15 No artful wildnefs to perplex the fcene ; Grove nods...grove, each Alley has a brother, And half the platform jutt refle&s the other. The fuff'ring eye inverted Nature fees, Trees cut to Statues, Statues thick...
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: In Nine Volumes Complete, with ..., Volume 3

Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1760 - 402 pages
...admiration call, On ev'ry fide you look, behold the Wall ! No pleafing Intricacies intervene, njp No artful wildnefs to perplex the fcene ; Grove nods...each Alley has a brother, And half the platform juft reflects the other. The fufPring eye inverted Nature fees, Trees cut to Statues, Statues thick as trees;...
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Providence: An Allegorical Poem in Three Books

John Ogilvie - Allegories - 1764 - 226 pages
...refinement and delicacy. Thus in fuch a villa as the poet abovemcntioned has deferibed that of Timon ; where Grove nods at grove, each -alley has a brother, And half the platform juft reflects the other. Tafte would be difgufted, where Folly or Ignorance might be rapt in admiration....
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The Beauties of English Poesy, Volume 1

Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1767 - 288 pages
...your admiration call, On ev'ry fide you look, behold the Wall ! No pleafmg Intricacies intervene, No artful wildnefs to perplex the fcene ; Grove nods...Alley has a brother, • And half the platform juft reflects the other. The fuffering eye inverted Nature fees, Trees cut to Statues, Statues thick as...
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London Review, Volume 6

1767 - 574 pages
...Few readers I luppofe need be informed that this line alludes to the following Couplet: Grove nods to Grove, each alley has a brother, And half the platform juft reflefts the other. Which would me emulate, her daring hand Mud l.ivilh all its energy fublime. Ontheetoo, SOUTHCOTF, (hall...
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