 | Alexander Pope - 1835 - 378 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1836 - 502 pages
...look, behold the wall ! No pleasing intricacies intervene, No artful wildness to perplex the «cene: just reflects the other. The suffering eye inverted nature sees. Trees cut to statues, statues thick... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1839 - 510 pages
...look, behold the wall ! No pleasing intricacies intervene, No artful wildness to perplex the scene ; Him no high, no low, no great, no small ; He fills, He bounds, conn just reflects the other. The suffering eye inverted nature sees, Tree* cut to statues, statues thick... | |
 | Juvenal - Verse satire, Latin - 1839 - 570 pages
...he weighs the crime, Equals the pause, and balances the chime :" Gf. so that, u in Tinwm's garden, " Grove nods at grove, each alley has a brother, And half the platform just reflects the other;" Pope, Mor. Ep. iv. 117 sq. 87. ' Does Romulus (Juv. iii. 67. M.) play the... | |
 | Humphry Repton - Architecture, Domestic - 1840 - 684 pages
...natural landscape ; as by the satirical allusions of Pope, in this couplet, so often quoted : — " Grove nods at grove, each alley has a brother, And half the platform just reflects the other." When every villa had its little symmetrical garden thus laid out, it is not... | |
 | Humphry Repton - Architecture, Domestic - 1840 - 672 pages
...natural landscape ; as by the satirical allusions of Pope, in this couplet, so often quoted : — " Grove nods at grove, each alley has a brother, And half the platform just reflects the other." When every villa had its little symmetrical garden thus laid out, it is not... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1841 - 840 pages
...look, behold the wall ! No pleasing intricacies intervene, No artful wildness to perplex the scene ; feel it true ; And really youre is budding too: — Nay — now I c just reflect» the other. The suffering oye 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. 
