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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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The Poetical Works of Alex. Pope: With a Sketch of the Author's Life

Alexander Pope - 1825 - 536 pages
...look, behold the wall I 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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Lisbon in the years 1821, 1822 and 1823

Marianne Baillie - Lisbon (Portugal) - 1825 - 520 pages
...brought those lines of Pope to my remembrance, wherein he speaks of that peculiar mode of planting. — " Grove nods at grove, each alley has a brother, And half the platform just reflects the other." While I wondered at this coincidence of taste, among the grandees of Portugal,...
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The British anthology; or, Poetical library, Volumes 3-4

British anthology - 1825 - 460 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 Poetical Works of Alexander Pope ...: To which is Prefixed the Life of ...

Alexander Pope - 1826 - 396 pages
...has a brother, And half the platform just reflects the other. The suffering eye inverted nature sees, ave; All states can reach it, and all heads conceive...: 30 Obvious her goods, in no extreme they dwell; summer-house that knows no shade ; Here Am phi t rite sails through myrtle bowers ; There gladiators...
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Select Works of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical Prefaces

John Aikin - English poetry - 1826 - 840 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 suffer! ng eye inverted Nature sees. Trees cut to statues, statues thick...
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The Poetical Works, Volume 2

Alexander Pope - 1828 - 264 pages
...has a brother, And half the platform just reflects the other. The suffering eye inverted nature sees, Trees cut to statues, statues thick as trees ; 120...With here a fountain never to be play'd, And there n summer-house that knows no shade : 96 Here Aniphitrite sails through myrtle bowers ; There gladiators...
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The London encyclopaedia, or, Universal dictionary of ..., Part 2, Volume 17

Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 426 pages
...discern how these propositions flow from them. Woodward. No artful wildpess to perplex the scene : Grove nods at grove, each alley has a brother, And half the platform just reflects the other. Pope. PLATFORM, in the military art, is an elevation of earth, on which cannon...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: To which is Prefixed the Life of ...

Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 pages
...look, behold the wall ! No pleasing intricacies intervene, No artful wildness to perplex the scene : ce admired. Thus Atticus, and Trumbull thus retired. Ye sacred Nine just reflects the other. The Buffering eye inverted nature sees, Trees cut to statues, statues thick...
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The Harpe's Head: A Legend of Kentucky

James Hall - American literature - 1833 - 298 pages
...description of a garden, where, " 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 neighborhood being secluded, and distant from the sea-board, fashions,...
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The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Volume 21

1833 - 468 pages
...those endless and tiresome walks that stretched out of one into another without intermission, where Grove nods at grove, each alley has a brother. And half the pasture reflects the other. We fear that the scenery of Kensington is but inadequately appreciated...
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