 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 - English poetry - 1836 - 502 pages
...look, behold the wall ! No pleasing intricacies intervene, No artful wildness to perplex the «cene: tree«; With here a fountain never to be play'd, And there a summer-house that knows no shade ; Here... | |
 | American literature - 1838 - 716 pages
...Nature? Art has plenty of it; if you look at a piece of landscape gardening you are sure to find it ; " Grove nods at grove, each alley has a brother, And half the platform just reflects the other." But in the natural landscape, and in the natural dialect, this contrivance and correspondence is not... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1839 - 510 pages
...your admiration call, On every side you look, behold the wall ! No pleasing intricacies intervene, e rapt seraph, that adore» and burns : To Him no...equals all. X. Cease then, nor ORDEII imperfection name Tree* cut to statues, statues thick as trees ; With here a fountain, never to be play'd ; And there... | |
 | Juvenal - Verse satire, Latin - 1839 - 570 pages
...he weighs the crime, Equals the pause, and balances the chime :" Gf. so that, u in Tinwm's garden, " Grove nods at grove, each alley has a brother, And half the platform just reflects the other;" Pope, Mor. Ep. iv. 117 sq. 87. ' Does Romulus (Juv. iii. 67. M.) play the spaniel?' by giving " Sweet... | |
 | Railroadiana - 1839 - 266 pages
...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." Stowe partook of the general incongruity; and the graceful variety of Nature was tortured into stiffness... | |
 | Humphry Repton - Architecture, Domestic - 1840 - 672 pages
...natural landscape ; as by the satirical allusions of Pope, in this couplet, so often quoted : — " Grove nods at grove, each alley has a brother, And half the platform just reflects the other." When every villa had its little symmetrical garden thus laid out, it is not to be wondered that the... | |
 | Humphry Repton - Architecture, Domestic - 1840 - 684 pages
...natural landscape ; as by the satirical allusions of Pope, in this couplet, so often quoted : — " Grove nods at grove, each alley has a brother, And half the platform just reflects the other." When every villa had its little symmetrical garden thus laid out, it is not to be wondered that the... | |
 | Yasmine Gooneratne - Literary Criticism - 1976 - 164 pages
...taste that takes classical regularity to the point of tedium No pleasing Intricacies intervene, 1 15 No artful wildness to perplex the scene; Grove nods...And half the platform just reflects the other. The balanced rhythm of the couplet form adds emphasis here to the impression of weary monotony Pope wishes... | |
 | Denys Thompson - Literary Criticism - 1978 - 252 pages
...country-house projects, and the distortion of Nature by the artificial treatment of trees and landscape: The suffering eye inverted Nature sees, Trees cut to statues, statues thick as trees. . . In the prophetic Dunciad he warns his readers against the coming of a reign of Dullness, with what... | |
 | Bruce Redford - Biography & Autobiography - 1986 - 272 pages
...Pope's description of Timon's Villa in the Epistle to Burlington: No pleasing Intricacies intervene, No artful wildness to perplex the scene; Grove nods...brother, And half the platform just reflects the other. (11. 115-18) Gray had visited both Oatlands and Hampton, as he tells Wharton, with the Dowager Viscountess... | |
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