 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
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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. 
