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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. "
The works of the English poets. With prefaces, biographical and critical, by ... - Page 140
by English poets - 1790
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London and Middlesex: Or, An Historical, Commercial, & Descriptive ..., Volume 4

Edward Wedlake Brayley - London (England) - 1816 - 932 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 ilie other. The suffering eye inverted nature sees. Trees cut to statues statues thick...
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Characters of the Court: A Poem with Notes

Characters - Great Britain - 1816 - 46 pages
...many, " Safe from the bar, the pulpit, and the throne, " Are touched and shamed by ridicule alone." f " Grove nods at grove, each alley has a brother, " And half the platform just reflects the other." POM. In youth, his soul with spotless honour graced,, Adorned with genuine...
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New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, Volume 10

Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1818 - 624 pages
...and strongly remind« one of the well known satire on the exploded taste in gardening: — С rove nods at grove, each alley has a brother, And half the platform just reflects the other. _The sister arts of Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, are very feebly personified....
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Select Works of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical ..., Volume 5

John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 402 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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The British poets, including translations, Volume 41

British poets - 1822 - 276 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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The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 3

Alexander Pope - 1822 - 370 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...
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Venice Under the Yoke of France and of Austria: With Memoirs of ..., Volume 1

Lady of rank - Italy - 1824 - 408 pages
...all is stiff — " 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." What shocked me most, undei the Napoleon sway, was the intrusion of -the...
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The Works of Alexander Pope: Esq. with Notes and Illustrations by ..., Volume 5

Alexander Pope - English literature - 1824 - 430 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 suffering eye inverted Nature sees, Trees cut to statues, statues thick...
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The Works of Alexander Popekesq., with Notes and Illustrations by ..., Volume 5

Alexander Pope - 1824 - 422 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 suffering eye inverted Nature sees, Trees cut to statues, statues thick...
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Select British Poets, Or, New Elegant Extracts from Chaucer to the Present ...

William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...look, behold the wall ! No pleasing intricacies intervene, No artful wildness to perplex the scene ; its palaces just reflects the other. The suffering eye inverted nature sees. Trees cut to statues, statues thick...
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