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An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope - Page 245
by Joseph Warton - 1782
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Nature; or, The poetry of earth and sea. From the Fr. [by W.H.D. Adams].

Athénaïs Marguerite M. Michelet - 1872 - 478 pages
...That tells the waters or to rise or fall; Or helps lli' ambitious hill the heavens to scale, Or scoops in circling theatres the vale ; Calls in the country, catches op'ning glades ; Joins circling woods, and varies shades from shades ; Now breaks, or now directs, the intending lines, Paints...
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The poetical works of Alexander Pope. With memoir, critical diss., and ...

Alexander Pope - 1872 - 744 pages
...He gains all points, who pleasingly confounds, Surprises, varies, and conceals the bounds. Consult the genius of the place in all : That tells the' waters or to rise, or fall ; Or helps the ambitious hill the .heavens to scale, Or scoops in circling theatres the...
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Nature: Or, The Poetry of Earth and Sea

Athanaïs Mialaret Michelet ("Mme. Jules Michelet, "), Madame Jules Michelet - Natural history - 1872 - 474 pages
...[Pope's idea of what a garden s/iould be is expressed in the well-known linea beginning :— % " Consult the genius of the place in all ; That tells the waters or to rise or fall ; Or helps th' ambitious hill the heavens to scale, Or scoops in circling theatres the...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope

Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1873 - 590 pages
...fall ; Or helps th' ambitious Hill the heav'ns to scale, Or scoops in circling theatres the Vale; 60 Calls in the Country, catches op'ning glades, Joins willing woods, and varies shades from shades; Now breaks, or now directs, th' intending Lines; .Paints as you plant, and, as...
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Hogarth's works, with life and anecdotal descriptions of his pictures by J ...

William Hogarth - 1874 - 528 pages
...perfect judge will read each work of wit With the same spirit that its author writ : " — " Consult the Genius of the place in all ; ' That tells the waters or to rise or fall ; Or helps the ambitious hill the heavens to scale. Or scoops in circling theatre the...
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Chaucer to Burns

Rossiter Johnson - English poetry - 1876 - 840 pages
...He gains all points, who pleasingly confounds, Surprises, varies, and conceals the bounds. Consult big warehouse built ; Rais'd the strong crane ; chok'd up t rise, or fall ; Or helps th' ambitious hill the heavens to scale, Or scoops in circling theatres ihe...
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POPE, SELECTED POEMS; THE ESSAY ON CRITICISM; THE MORAL ESSAYS; THE DUNCIAD

THOMAS ARNOLD - 1876 - 312 pages
...hide. He gains all points who pleasingly confounds, Surprises, varies, and conceals the bounds. Consult the genius of the place in all ; That tells the waters or to rise or fall ; Or helps th' ambitious hill the heavens to scale, Or scoops in circling theatres the...
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Girls and their ways, by one who knows them

Girls - 1881 - 390 pages
...contrary, while she was being amended and ' touched up,' she was to be respectfully recognised. ' Consult the Genius of the Place in all ; That tells the waters or to rise or fall ; Or helps th' ambitious hill the heavens to scale, Or scoops in circling theatres the...
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The Works of ...

Alexander Pope - 1889 - 590 pages
...the leading ideas which in his Essay he recommends for adoption on a more extended scale : " Consult the genius of the place in all, That tells the waters or to rise or fall ; Or helps the ambitious hill the heavens to scale, Or scoops in circling theatres the...
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Rational Landscapes and Humanistic Geography

E. C. Relph - Architecture - 1981 - 252 pages
...that existed so that everything was in 'keeping'. Pope gave precise advice on how to proceed: Consult the Genius of the Place in all, That tells the waters or to rise, or fall, Or helps th'ambitious Hill the heav'n to scale, Figure 2.4: The landscape garden at...
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