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 | Sir Richard Colt Hoare - France - 1815 - 402 pages
...of description cannot convey a better idea of Dutch gardens than the two following lines quotcd-from Pope: Grove nods at grove ; each alley has its brother ; And half the platform just reflects the other. From the natural soil and situation of the country much cannot be... | |
 | Patrick Neill - Botanical gardens - 1823 - 618 pages
...garden ; — so that the often-quoted couplet of Pope can nowhere be more literally exemplified : " Grove nods at grove ; each alley has its brother, " And half the platform just reflects the other." The two corresponding ponds are surrounded with very old horse-cbesnut... | |
 | Sholto Percy, Reuben Percy - London (England) - 1824 - 392 pages
...formal plantations to be met with in some of our parks, which Pope has so happily described, as where " Grove nods at grove, each alley has its brother, And half the platform just reflects the other," yet there are vales rich in verdure, and eminences which command... | |
 | Christianity - 1826 - 696 pages
...roust, without dispute, be considered the most fraternal generation that ever were laurel in society. Grove nods at grove, each alley has its brother, And half the platform just reflects the other. Miss Landon is quite Byronic, in her way, being, like the gloomy... | |
 | James Silk Buckingham - 1826 - 676 pages
...must, without dispute, be considered the most fraternal generation that ever wore laurel in society. Grove nods at grove, each alley has its brother, And half the platform just reflects th<i other. Miss Landon is quite Byronic, in her way, beiug, like the gloomy... | |
 | Mrs. Markham - Great Britain - 1829 - 474 pages
...this variety gave to these gardens a formal air, which the poet Pope well describes where he says, Grove nods at grove ; each alley has its brother, And half the platform just reflects the other. Mary. All this might be very ugly and very formal ; but still I should... | |
 | 1835 - 616 pages
...that Egyptian taste would partake of the formal regularity of artificial gardening, and so it is — ' Grove nods at grove, each alley has its brother, And half the platform just reflects the other.' Four square fish-ponds are marked by rows of aquatic birds of exactly... | |
 | Sir Joseph Paxton - Botany - 1838 - 388 pages
...be avoided for the sake of irregularity; and to escape from the style satirised by Pope, in which " Grove nods at grove, each alley has its brother, And half the garden just reflects the other." A striking metropolitan example of the present taste for non-correspondent... | |
 | Gardening - 1841 - 680 pages
...and aspect, ope endeavoured to mark this fashion in one of his terse and expressive couplets : — " Grove nods at grove, each alley has its brother, And half the platform just reflects the other." " But the writings of the poet and the critic cannot convey an adequate... | |
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Grove nods at grove ; each alley has its brother, And half the platform just reflects the other. 
