 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 232 pages
...behold the wall ! No pleasing intricacies intervene, 115 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 suff'ring eye inverted Nature sees, Trees cut to statues, statues thick... | |
 | Elizabeth Meeke - 1804 - 284 pages
...much in the French and Dutch tafte, as it might truly be faid— " Gjx>ve nods at grove, each a!l j y has a brother, " And half the platform juft reflefts the other." The Baron's welcome, however, made ample amends for any want of tafte either lie or his anceftors had difplayed... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Lisle Bowles - 1806 - 466 pages
...admiration call, On ev'ry fide you look, behold the Wall ! No pleafing Intricacies intervene, 1 1 5 No artful wildnefs to perplex the fcene ; Grove nods...each Alley has a brother, And half the platform juft reflects the other. The fuff'ring eye inverted Nature fees, Trees cut to Statues, Statues thick as... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1806 - 474 pages
...truth by me } " But Fortune's (lave thou wert, and a mere empty name." EPISTLE IV. P. 321. Ver. 1 17. 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 fubjedl, has made life of this mod happy couplet :... | |
 | John Black - Dialect drama, Scottish - 1806 - 260 pages
...the fyllables. The modern poets are more uniform, like the gardens which Mr Pope defcribes, where, Grove nods at grove, each alley has a brother, And half the platform juft reflefts the other. But is this a true or falfe taftc ? We certainly borrowed it from the French, in the Gallic, not Auguftan,... | |
 | Rachel Hunter - 1806 - 802 pages
...nature and the god of day; but for the rest let the poet speak — !...•..-.. . •- •:•-. ;. " Grove nods at grove, each alley has a brother, And half the platform just reflects the other; : j The suffering eye inverted Nature sees, Trees cut as statues, statues... | |
 | Isaac Weld - Killarney (Kerry, Ireland) - 1807 - 286 pages
...regularities of a Dutch garden. 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. Beyond the precincts of the old gardens, walks and shrubberies have been laid... | |
 | John Bell - 1807 - 562 pages
...bebold the wall I No pleasing intricacies intervene, 113 No an ful wildness to perplex the scene ; '-we nods at grove, each alley has a brother. And half the platform just reflects the other. The sufi'ring eye inverted Nature sees, Trees cut to statues, statues thick... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1808 - 334 pages
...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 suffering eye inverted Nature sees, Trees cut to statues, statues thick... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 328 pages
...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 suffering eye inverted Nature sees, Trees cut to statues, statues thick... | |
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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. 
