 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
 | Charles W. Moore, William John Mitchell, William Turnbull - Architecture - 1988 - 286 pages
...iambic pentameter rhymed couplets, of course): No pleasing intricacies intervene, No artful wilderness to perplex the scene: Grove nods at grove, each alley...brother, And half the platform just reflects the other. Pope insinuates that symmetrical gardens follow mindless formal rules, with predictably dull results.... | |
 | Meyer Howard Abrams - Literary Criticism - 1989 - 452 pages
...you begin an intricately ordered pattern, it seeks closure by reproducing mirror images of itself : Grove nods at grove, each alley has a brother; And half the platform just reflects the other. The danger is that when the total gridwork is completed, not only have you a place for everything but every... | |
 | Detmar Doering - Classicism - 1990 - 330 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...inverted nature sees, Trees cut to statues, statues thick äs trees."1 Burke stellt denn auch fest, daß die zeitgenössische Gartenbaukunst seinen Vorstellungen... | |
 | Otfried Schütz - Art - 1993 - 512 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...inverted nature sees, Trees cut to statues, statues thick äs trees."1 Burke stellt denn auch fest, daß die zeitgenössische Gartenbaukunst seinen Vorstellungen... | |
 | Matt Cartmill - History - 1996 - 352 pages
...next your admiration call, On ev'ry side you look, behold the wall! No pleasing intricacies intervene, No artful wildness to perplex the scene; Grove nods...a brother, And half the platform just reflects the other.9 In the early eighteenth century, the British aristocracy began to share the preference of Pope... | |
 | Elisabeth B. MacDougall - Architecture - 1994 - 400 pages
...typified by this poem by Pope: On ev'ry side you look, behold the Wall: No pleasing intricacies intervene, 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." Yet it is possible... | |
 | Jacques Carré - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 232 pages
...! No pleasing intricacies intervene, No artful wildness to perplex the scene; Groves nod at groves, each Alley has a Brother, And half the Platform just reflects the other. Bad taste results from having taken what he calls the 'high priori' road (a pun on the axiomatic method... | |
 | C. A. Patrides - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 420 pages
...dreadful, yet how dear is this place!1 Note Adapted from Pope's 'Epistle to Burlington', 11. 117-18: 'Grove nods at grove, each Alley has a brother, /...And half the platform just reflects the other' . The allusion was identified by Mr Anthony W. Shipps. 51 . ROBERT ARIS WILLMOTT, FROM HIS INTRODUCTION TO... | |
 | Graham Midgley - Education - 1996 - 200 pages
...garden shows a fondness for formality, geometric patterning, topiary, parterres and gravel paths, where Grove 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. 15 25 A plan of Wadham... | |
 | Tom Turner - Architecture - 1996 - 262 pages
...Epistle to Lord Burlington laughs at the conceits of the enclosed style: Grove nods at Grove, each Ally 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, With here a Fountain,... | |
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