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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 Poetical Works of Alexander Pope - Page 87
by Alexander Pope - 1854
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A Tour in Switzerland, Or, A View of the Present State of the ..., Volume 1

Helen Maria Williams - Paris (France) - 1798 - 406 pages
...bowers, and arbours, prophanely cut into all the mifhapen forms of Gothic fury, and where literally, " Grove nods at grove, each alley has a brother, " And half the platform juft reflects the other." One might forgive a Dutchman for cliping his trees, and fquaring his walks...
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A Journey Into Cornwall, Through the Counties of Southampton, Wilts, Dorset ...

George Lipscomb - England - 1799 - 394 pages
...in the same formal style which, has been humorously ridiculed by a celebrated poet. f " Grove nrxls at grove, each alley has a brother, And half the platform just reflects the other." Landedric is said to have been founded in the time of the Saxons, as the name Edric seems to indicate;...
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The Life of David Garrick, Esq, Volume 1

Arthur Murphy - Actors - 1801 - 434 pages
...confounds, 'x Surprizes, varies, and conceals the bounds, And again, No pleasing intricacies intervene, No artful wildness to perplex the scene; Grove nods...brother, And half the platform just reflects the other. , This is too much the case in the play before us. The dialogue runs generally into long speeches,...
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Public Characters

Great Britain - 1801 - 622 pages
...the dipt hedges or rather green walls in the villas that surround the metropolis of France, where " Grove nods at grove, each alley has a brother, And half the platform just reflects the other," he has sometimes given us nature in a masquerade habit. All this might originate in the place where...
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The Beauties of England and Wales, Or, Delineations, Topographical ..., Volume 1

John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees - Anglesey (Wales) - 1801 - 512 pages
...greatest beauties ; and the formalities of art studiously displayed in every shape of monstrous deformity. The suffering eye inverted nature sees ; Trees cut to statues, statues thick as trees. % POPB. Stowe partook of the general incongruity, and the graceful variety of nature was tortured into...
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Public characters [Formerly British public characters] of 1798-9 ..., Volume 3

1801 - 606 pages
...rather green walls in the villas that surround the metropolis of France, where " Grove nods at greve, each alley has a brother, " And half the platform just reflects the other," he has sometimes given us nature in a masquerade habit. All this might originate in the place where...
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Public Characters, Volume 3

Biography - 1801 - 602 pages
...rather green walls in the villas that surround the metropolis of France, where " Grove nods at grave, each alley has a brother, «' And half the platform just reflects the other," he has sometimes given us nature in a masquerade habit. All this might originate in the place where...
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The Beauties of England and Wales, Or, Delineations ..., Volume 10, Issue 4

John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees - Architecture - 1816 - 924 pages
...your admiration call, On ever; fide you look, behold the wall ! No pleasing intricacies intervene. No artful wildness to perplex the scene ; Grove nods at grove, each alle; has » brother. And half the platform just reflect! the other. The suffering eye inverted nature...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: With His Last Corrections ..., Volume 3

Alexander Pope - 1804 - 232 pages
...behind Improves the keenness of the northern wind. His gardens next your admiration call ; On ev'ry side you look behold the wall ! No pleasing intricacies...And half the platform just reflects the other. The suff'ring eye inverted Nature sees, Trees cut to statues, statues thick as trees ; 120 With here a...
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Lady Maclairn, the victim of villany, Volumes 1-2

Rachel Hunter - 1806 - 802 pages
...nature and the god of day; but for the rest let the poet speak — !...•..-.. . •- •:•-. ;. " Grove nods at grove, each alley has a brother, And half the platform just reflects the other; : j The suffering eye inverted Nature sees, Trees cut as statues, statues cut as trees." This being...
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