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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 Alexander Pope. Ed. by R. Carruthers, Volume 4

Alexander Pope - 1854 - 338 pages
...look, 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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Where is it? A dictionary of common poetical quotations in the English language

Where - 1855 - 86 pages
...Paradise Lost, book ii. MILTON. God made the country, and man made the town.3 Sofa — Task. COWPER. Grove nods at grove, each alley has a brother, And half the platform just reflects the other. Fourth Moral Essay. POPE. 1 The lustre in your eye, heaven in your cheek....
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 2

Alexander Pope - 1856 - 362 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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Alexander Pope

Yasmine Gooneratne - Literary Criticism - 1976 - 164 pages
...the point of tedium No pleasing Intricacies intervene, 1 15 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 balanced rhythm of the couplet form adds emphasis here to the impression...
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The Converse of the Pen: Acts of Intimacy in the Eighteenth-century Familiar ...

Bruce Redford - Biography & Autobiography - 1986 - 272 pages
...Epistle to Burlington: 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. (11. 115-18) Gray had visited both Oatlands and Hampton, as he tells Wharton,...
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The Poetics of Gardens

Charles W. Moore, William John Mitchell, William Turnbull - Architecture - 1988 - 286 pages
...couplets, of course): No pleasing intricacies intervene, No artful wilderness to perplex the scene: Grove nods at grove, each alley has a brother, And half the platform just reflects the other. Pope insinuates that symmetrical gardens follow mindless formal rules, with...
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Doing Things with Texts: Essays in Criticism and Critical Theory

Meyer Howard Abrams - Literary Criticism - 1989 - 452 pages
...you begin an intricately ordered pattern, it seeks closure by reproducing mirror images of itself : Grove nods at grove, each alley has a brother; And half the platform just reflects the other. The danger is that when the total gridwork is completed, not only have you...
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Die Wiederkehr der Klugheit: Edmund Burke und das Augustan Age

Detmar Doering - Classicism - 1990 - 330 pages
...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 suffering eye inverted nature sees, Trees cut to statues, statues thick...
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A View to a Death in the Morning: Hunting and Nature Through History

Matt Cartmill - History - 1996 - 352 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.9 In the early eighteenth century, the British aristocracy began to share the...
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Britsch und Kornmann: quellenkundliche Untersuchungen zur Theorie der ...

Otfried Schütz - Art - 1993 - 512 pages
...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 suffering eye inverted nature sees, Trees cut to statues, statues thick...
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