 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
 | Characters - Great Britain - 1816 - 46 pages
...many, " Safe from the bar, the pulpit, and the throne, " Are touched and shamed by ridicule alone." f " Grove nods at grove, each alley has a brother, " And half the platform just reflects the other." POM. In youth, his soul with spotless honour graced,, Adorned with genuine feeling, wit, and taste... | |
 | John Britton - Architecture - 1816 - 944 pages
...intricacies intervene. No artfol wildness to perplex the scene , Grove nods at grove, each alley hns a brother, And half the platform just reflects the other. The suffering eye inverted nature sees, Treei cut to statues, statues thick a« trees." Although the building raised by i Ins magnificent nobleman... | |
 | Robert Johnston - Poland - 1816 - 406 pages
...hills nor distant views, to relieve the studied regularity of lengthened avenues and formal walks. " Grove nods at grove, each alley has a brother, And half the platform just reflects the oth«r." It is a remarkable circumstance that in this part of the country, birch, poplar, and some... | |
 | Edward Wedlake Brayley - London (England) - 1816 - 946 pages
...your admiration call, On every side you look, behold the nail ' No pleasing intricacies intervene. No artful wildness to perplex the scene , Grove nods at grove, each alley hits a brother, And half the platform j ust reflects the other. The suffering eye inverted nature sees.... | |
 | John Evans - 1817 - 610 pages
...gardens are in the regular Dutch style, so aptly described by Pope : — -• • ; Grove nods at grave, each alley has a brother, And half the platform just reflects the other! KING WILLIAM. WILLIAM, the founder of this New Palace, was much attached to the spot. Unaccustomed... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1818 - 624 pages
...and strongly remind« one of the well known satire on the exploded taste in gardening: — С rove nods at grove, each alley has a brother, And half the platform just reflects the other. _The sister arts of Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, are very feebly personified. The figure of History... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...intricacies intervene, No artful wildncss to perplex the scene ; Grove nods at grove, each alley lias ll nigh half The angelic name, and thinner left the...aveng'd, And to repair his numbers thus impair' d, Whet ; With here a fountain, never to be play'd ; And there a summer-house that knows no shade ; Here Amphitrite... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 402 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... | |
 | Classical poetry - 1822 - 284 pages
...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...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 Amphitritfe... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 370 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 NOTES. print,... | |
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