 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 87by Alexander Pope - 1854Full view - About this book
 | Alexander Pope, William Lisle Bowles - 1806 - 466 pages
...behold the Wall ! No pleafing Intricacies intervene, 1 1 5 No artful wildnefs to perplex the fcene ; Grove nods at grove, 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1806 - 474 pages
...truth by me } " But Fortune's (lave thou wert, and a mere empty name." EPISTLE IV. P. 321. Ver. 1 17. Grove nods at grove, each alley has a brother, And half the platform juft reflefts the other. An author of congenial tafte ; and, on a fimilar fubjedl, has made life of... | |
 | John Black - Dialect drama, Scottish - 1806 - 260 pages
...the fyllables. The modern poets are more uniform, like the gardens which Mr Pope defcribes, where, Grove nods at grove, each alley has a brother, And half the platform juft reflefts the other. But is this a true or falfe taftc ? We certainly borrowed it from the French,... | |
 | Isaac Weld - Killarney (Kerry, Ireland) - 1807 - 286 pages
...selected for a display of the insipid regularities of a Dutch garden. No pleasing intricacies intervene, No artful wildness to perplex the scene ; Grove nods...brother, And half the platform just reflects the other. Beyond the precincts of the old gardens, walks and shrubberies have been laid out in a more modern... | |
 | John Bell - 1807 - 562 pages
...bebold the wall I No pleasing intricacies intervene, 113 No an ful wildness to perplex the scene ; '-we nods at grove, each alley has a brother. And half the platform just reflects the other. The sufi'ring eye inverted Nature sees, Trees cut to statues, statues thick as trees ; 129 Here Amphitrite... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1807 - 316 pages
...Ou every side you look, hehold the wall ! No pleasing intricacies intervene, 115 No artful wildncss to perplex the scene; Grove nods at grove, each alley has a hrother, And half the platform just reflects the other. The suffering eye inverted nature sees, Trees... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1808 - 334 pages
...your admiration rail ; On every side you look, behold the wall ! No pleasing intricacies intervene, No artful wildness to perplex the scene ; Grove nods...sees, Trees cut to statues, statues thick as trees ; With here a fountain never to be pjay'd, And there a summer-house that koows no shade ; Here Aniphitrite... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 328 pages
...your admiration rail ; On every side you look, behold the wall ! No pleasing intricacies intervene, No artful wildness to perplex the scene ; Grove nods...sees, Trees cut to statues, statues thick as trees ; With here a fountain never to be play'd, And there a summer-house that knows no shade ; Here Amphitrite... | |
 | Mrs. Costello - 1809 - 214 pages
...walks, and regular rows of trees on each side, which brought the following lines of Pope to her mind: Grove nods at grove, each alley has a brother, And half the platform just reflects the other : She tried to divert her thoughts from dwelling on painful subjects, by fixing them on objects new... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1809 - 604 pages
...behold the wall! No pleasing intricacies intervene, No artful wildness to perplex the scene ; (irrne Cumberland. §gl. FABI.E i. T/if Lion, the Tigcrr. and tlic Traveller. sufTring eye inverted nature sees, IWs cut to statues, statues thick as trees. ; With here a fountain... | |
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