 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
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1826 - 840 pages
...your admiration call, On every side you look, behold the wall ! No pleasing intricacies intervene, . suffer! ng eye inverted Nature sees. Trees cut to statues, statues thick as trees ; With here a fountain,... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 426 pages
...observations and proofs, will discern how these propositions flow from them. Woodward. No artful wildpess to perplex the scene : Grove nods at grove, each alley...brother, And half the platform just reflects the other. Pope. PLATFORM, in the military art, is an elevation of earth, on which cannon are placed to fire on... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 pages
...your admiration call, On every side you look, behold the wall ! No pleasing intricacies intervene, r home ! Such was the life great Scipio once admired....retired. Ye sacred Nine ! that all my soul possess, W Buffering eye inverted nature sees, Trees cut to statues, statues thick as tree* ; 130 With here a... | |
 | John Galt - Actors - 1831 - 332 pages
...poet — No pleasing intricacies intervene, No artful wildness to perplex the scene; Grove nods to grove, each alley has a brother, And half the platform just reflects the other — for Thomson's forte was not dramatic ; even his elegant power of allusion, which renders " The... | |
 | John Galt - Actors - 1831 - 336 pages
...poet — No pleasing intricacies intervene, No artful wildness to perplex the scene ; Grove nods to grove, each alley has a brother, And half the platform just reflects the other — for Thomson's forte was not dramatic ; even his elegant power of allusion, which renders " The... | |
 | James Hall - American literature - 1833 - 298 pages
...regimentals ; reminding one of Pope's description of a garden, where, " No pleasing intricacies intervene, No artful wildness to perplex the scene, Grove nods...brother, And half the platform just reflects the other." This neighborhood being secluded, and distant from the sea-board, fashions, coming with a tardy step... | |
 | 1833 - 468 pages
...those endless and tiresome walks that stretched out of one into another without intermission, where Grove nods at grove, each alley has a brother. And half the pasture reflects the other. We fear that the scenery of Kensington is but inadequately appreciated... | |
 | James Hall - Kentucky - 1834 - 494 pages
...regimentals ; reminding one of Pope's description of a garden, where " No pleasing intricacies intervene, No artful wildness to perplex the scene, Grove nods at grove, each alley 1ms a brother, And half the platform just reflects the other." ?. c 6 This This neighbourhood being... | |
 | Rev. George William David Evans - Art, Italian - 1835 - 408 pages
...this villa too close a resemblance to those monotonous pleasure grounds where, as Pope expresses it, Grove nods at grove, each alley has a brother, And half the platform just reflects the other. The fronts of the principal casino still serve as frames for a variety of ancient relievos; but the interior,... | |
 | sir William Cusack Smith (2nd bart.) - Metaphysics - 1835 - 160 pages
...Is Mind material ? * The passage from Pope, which I mean to parody, (I quote from memory,) is this : "Grove nods at grove; each alley has a brother; And half the platform just reflects the other." f Le Philtre Champenois. Whatever my conjectures may be, I cannot tell. You cannot tell ! Assuredly... | |
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