| Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1791 - 966 pages
...call ; On ev'ry fide you look, behold the wall ! No plcaling intricacies intervene, No artful wildncfs . He gain'd from Hca reflects the other. The fufFring eye inverted nature fees, Trees cut to ftatues, ftatues thick as trees... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - Conduct of life - 1791 - 510 pages
...behold the wall ! S'o pleafing intricacies intervene, No artful wildnefs to perplex the fcene ; Srove nods at grove, each alley has a brother, And half the platform juft reflefts the other. The fufPring eye inverted nature fees, . Trees cut to ftatues, ftatues thick as trees ; With here a fountain... | |
| Robert Anderson - English poetry - 1795 - 906 pages
...your admiration call, On every fi Je you look, behold the wall! No pleafing intricacies intervene, No artful wildnefs to perplex the fcene ; Grove nods at grove, each alley ha» a brother, And half ihc platform jult refleAs the other. The fullering eye inverted nature fees.... | |
| Gilbert Wakefield - 1796 - 382 pages
...apvu.ooitv;, Peneus with Jilver winding* : which is quite a different affair. CL Ver. 117. ^ 1 Ver. 117. Grove nods at grove, each alley has a brother, And half the platform juft reflefts the other. An author of congenial tafte, and on a fimilar fubje£t, has made ufe of this moft happy couplet ;... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1796 - 574 pages
...behold the wall ! No plenfing intricacies intervene, No artful wildnefs to perplex the fcene ; Cïrove nods at grove, each alley has a brother, And half the platform juft refle¿ts the other. The lurT'ring eye inverted nature fees, Trees cut to ftatucs, ftatues thick as... | |
| Helen Maria Williams - Paris (France) - 1798 - 406 pages
...bowers, and arbours, prophanely cut into all the mifhapen forms of Gothic fury, and where literally, " Grove nods at grove, each alley has a brother, " And half the platform juft reflects the other." One might forgive a Dutchman for cliping his trees, and fquaring his walks by.... | |
| Helen Maria Williams - Paris (France) - 1798 - 378 pages
...bowers, and arbours, profanely cut into all the mifhapen forms of Gothic fury, and where literally, " Grove nods at grove, each alley has a brother, " And half the platform jufts reflects the other." •. One might forgive a Dutchman for clipping his trees, and fquaring his... | |
| Arthur Murphy - 1801 - 544 pages
...confounds, Surprizes, varies, and conceals the bounds. And again. No pleafing intricacies intervene, No artful wildnefs to perplex the fcene ; • Grove nods at grove ; each alley has a brother, And half theplatforn jufts reflects the other. . " . This is too much the cafe in the play before us. The dialogue... | |
| Great Britain - 1801 - 622 pages
...the dipt hedges or rather green walls in the villas that surround the metropolis of France, where " Grove nods at grove, each alley has a brother, And half the platform just reflects the other," he has sometimes given us nature in a masquerade habit. All this might originate... | |
| Arthur Murphy - Actors - 1801 - 434 pages
...the bounds, And again, 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. , This is too much the case in the play before us. The dialogue runs generally... | |
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