 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
 | David Hughson - London (England) - 1809 - 820 pages
...will perceive, that Mason alludes to the following couplet in Pope's Description : t Grove nods to grove, each alley has a brother, And half the platform just reflects the other. It is to be lamented that Pope, by his satire on the profuse and ostentatious, but kind and benefit-,... | |
 | Edward Pugh - 1809 - 784 pages
...reader will perceive, that Mason alludes to the following couple in Pope's Description: Grove nods to grove, each alley has a brother, And half the platform just reflects the other. It is to be lamented that Pope, by his satire on the profuse and ostentatious, but kind and benefic,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - Great Britain - 1809 - 608 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.'' On moving an Address to the Throne, containing a Declaration of Rights. IN his speech on this occasion,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 546 pages
...you look, bahold the wall ! No pleasing intricacies intervene, No artful wildncss to p<Tplex > h«- scene ; Grove nods at grove, each alley has a brother,...And half the platform just reflects the other. The sufl'eritig eye inverted Nature SKCS, Trees out to statues, statues thick as trees ; 1 20 With here... | |
 | Ben Jonson, John Fletcher, Francis Beaumont - English drama - 1811 - 712 pages
...Faithful Shepherdess? More uniform they are, we allow, like the gardens which Mr. Pope describes, where * Grove nods at grove, each alley has a brother, ' And half the platform just reflects the other. But is this a true or a false taste? We certainly borrowed it from the French in. the Gallic (not Augustine)... | |
 | William Mason - Church music - 1811 - 530 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. Note X. Verse 511. Tlie pencil's power : but, fir' d by higher forms It is said that Mr. Kent frequently... | |
 | William Mason - Gardens - 1811 - 524 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. NoteX. Verse 511. The pencil's power : but, fir' d by higher forms It is said that Mr. Kent frequently... | |
 | Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher - 1811 - 712 pages
...uniform they are, we allow, lika the gardens which Mr. Pope describes, where ' Grove nods at erove, each alley has a brother, ' And half the platform just reflects the other. But is this a true or a false taste? We certainly borrowed it from the French in the Gallic (not Augustine)... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 348 pages
...admiration call, On ev'ry side you look, behold the wall ! No pleasing intricacies intervene, 1 15 No artful wildness to perplex the scene ; Grove nods...And half the platform just reflects the other. The suff'ring eye inverted nature sees, Trees cut to statues, statues thick as trees ; 1 20 With here a... | |
 | Artists - 1812 - 474 pages
...every night." regular formality that distinguishes the aquatic f raggery of a Dutch burgomaster. , " Grove nods at grove, each alley has a brother, "And half the platform just reflects the other." * A bravo is more properly an Italian than an English charatter; but even in England, the Mofanassassinma-y... | |
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