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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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The Works of Alexander Pope;

Alexander Pope - 1822 - 368 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 print, which...
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The British Poets: Including Translations ...

British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 310 pages
...readers, I suppose, need be informed that this line alludes to the following couplet: Grove nods to grove, each alley has a brother, And half the platform just reflects the other. i0 The pencil's power: tut, fred by higher forms.] It is said that Mr. Kent frequently declared he...
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 3

Alexander Pope - 1822 - 372 pages
...nods at grove, each Alley has a brother, And half the platform just reflects the other. The suff'ring eye inverted Nature sees, Trees cut to Statues, Statues thick as trees ; 120 NOTES. print, which is now become very valuable. It is remarkable our Author never once names Hogarth,...
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An account of Paris at the close of the 17th century, revised by G. Henning

Martin Lister - 1823 - 220 pages
...mounted the wall of a besieged town, turns about and entertains his army with a song ! " The suff'ring eye inverted nature 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...
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Select British Poets, Or, New Elegant Extracts from Chaucer to the Present ...

William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...your admiration call, On every side you look, behold the wall ! No pleasing intricacies intervene, , its splendours rise, Its vistas strike, its palaces ; With here a fountain, never to be play'd ; And there a summer-house that knows no shade ; Here Amphitrite...
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Venice Under the Yoke of France and of Austria: With Memoirs of ..., Volume 1

Lady of rank - Italy - 1824 - 408 pages
...sight of. All is formal — all is monotonous - all is stiff — " No pleasing intricacies intervene, " No artful wildness to perplex the scene ; " Grove..." And half the platform just reflects the other." What shocked me most, undei the Napoleon sway, was the intrusion of -the soldiery, dressed in full...
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The Parliamentary Debates, Volume 9

Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1824 - 842 pages
...would have us, into a smug parallelogram of smooth-shaven terraces, and regular quincunx, where • " each alley has a brother, " And half the platform just reflects the other." But ours is a constitution not kept altogether for ornament. We want it for work and for wear ; and...
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The British anthology; or, Poetical library, Volumes 3-4

British anthology - 1825 - 460 pages
...your admiration call ; 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...
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The Poetical Works of Alex. Pope: With a Sketch of the Author's Life

Alexander Pope - 1825 - 536 pages
...your admiration call, On every side you look, behold the wall I No pleasing intricacies intervene, No artful wildness to perplex the scene ; Grove nods...sees, Trees cut to statues, statues thick as trees ; 12o With here a fountain, never to be play'd, And there a summer-house that knows no shade ; Here...
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Lisbon in the years 1821, 1822 and 1823

Marianne Baillie - Lisbon (Portugal) - 1825 - 520 pages
...brought those lines of Pope to my remembrance, wherein he speaks of that peculiar mode of planting. — " Grove nods at grove, each alley has a brother, And half the platform just reflects the other." While I wondered at this coincidence of taste, among the grandees of Portugal, (for almost all the...
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