 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
 | Isaac Weld - Killarney, Lakes of - 1812 - 360 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 at grove, each alley haa a brother, And half the platform just reflects the other. Beyond the precincts of the old gardens,... | |
 | John Britton - Architecture - 1812 - 1070 pages
...royal master, Jamei the second, and died at St. Germain's in 1696. Ho pleasing intricacies intervene, No artful wildness to perplex the scene ; Grove nods at grove, each alley bai a brother. And half the platform just reflects the other." POFX. Some few of these fanciful ornaments... | |
 | 1815 - 558 pages
...clenches, in style. They too much resemble a garden laid out according to Pope's description, " Where each alley has a brother, And half the platform just reflects the other." MR. CANNING. THIS gentleman writes verses belter than he makes speeches. If he had as much understanding... | |
 | Thomas Downes Wilmot Dearn - Kent (England) - 1814 - 380 pages
...grounds in Harris's History of Kent, the bad taste of those days is rendered strikingly manifest, where " Grove nods at grove, each alley has a brother, And half the platform just reflects the other." This fashion, the spurious offspring of Batavian parents, but nurtured and matured by the folly of... | |
 | Thomas Downes Wilmot Dearn - Kent (England) - 1814 - 382 pages
...bad taste of those days is rendered strikingly manifest, where •;.:..'.- r .;/.. y • "Grove rtods at grove, each alley Has a brother, And half the platform just reflects the other." This fashion, the spurious offspring of Batavian parents, but nurtured and matured by the folly of... | |
 | Thomas Lister Parker - 1815 - 186 pages
...admiration call; " On every side you look, behold a wall ; *' No pleasing intricacies intervene, " No artful wildness to perplex the scene ; " Grove..." And half the platform just reflects the other." ... In a letter from Mr. William Parker, Archdeacon of Cornwall, 1674, to his relation Mr. Thomas Parker,... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1815 - 740 pages
...next your admiration call; On every side you look, behold a wall; No pleasing intricacies intervene, No artful wildness to perplex the scene; Grove nods...brother, And half the platform just reflects the other.' " In a letter from Mr. William Parker, Archdeacon of Cornwall, 1674, to his relation Mr. Thomas Parker,... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1815 - 704 pages
...look, behold a wall ; No pleasing intricacies intervene, No artful wildness to perplex the scene; Crave nods at grove, each alley has a brother, And half the platform just reflects the other.' " In a letter from Mr. William Parker, •Archdeacon of Cornwall, 1674, to his relation Mr. Thomas... | |
 | 1815 - 554 pages
...clenches, in style. They too much resemble a garden laid out according to Pope's description, > " Where each alley has a brother, And half the platform just reflects the other." MR. CANNING. , gentleman writes verses better than he makes speeches, If he had as much understanding... | |
 | Edward Wedlake Brayley - London (England) - 1816 - 932 pages
...your admiration call, On every tide you look, behold the wall " No pleasing intricacies intervene, No artful wildness to perplex the scene , Grove nods...has a brother, And half the platform just reflects ilie other. The suffering eye inverted nature sees. Trees cut to statues statues thick as trees." Although... | |
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