 | Helen Maria Williams - Paris (France) - 1798 - 406 pages
...bowers, and arbours, prophanely cut into all the mifhapen forms of Gothic fury, and where literally, " Grove nods at grove, each alley has a brother, " And half the platform juft reflects the other." One might forgive a Dutchman for cliping his trees, and fquaring his walks... | |
 | George Lipscomb - England - 1799 - 394 pages
...in the same formal style which, has been humorously ridiculed by a celebrated poet. f " Grove nrxls at grove, each alley has a brother, And half the platform just reflects the other." Landedric is said to have been founded in the time of the Saxons, as the name Edric seems... | |
 | Arthur Murphy - Actors - 1801 - 434 pages
...gains»alj points, who pleasingly confounds, 'x Surprizes, varies, and conceals the bounds, And again, No pleasing intricacies intervene, No artful wildness...has a brother, And half the platform just reflects the other. , This is too much the case in the play before us. The dialogue runs generally into long... | |
 | John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees - Architecture - 1816 - 924 pages
...ground. Two cupids squirt before : a lake behind Hit gardeni nest your admiration call, On ever; fide you look, behold the wall ! No pleasing intricacies...wildness to perplex the scene ; Grove nods at grove, each alle; has » brother. And half the platform just reflect! the other. The suffering eye inverted nature... | |
 | Great Britain - 1801 - 622 pages
...the dipt hedges or rather green walls in the villas that surround the metropolis of France, where " Grove nods at grove, each alley has a brother, And half the platform just reflects the other," he has sometimes given us nature in a masquerade habit. All this might originate in the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 232 pages
...your admiration call ; On ev'ry side you look behold the wall ! No pleasing intricacies intervene, 115 No artful wildness to perplex the scene ; Grove nods...has a brother, And half the platform just reflects the other. The suff'ring eye inverted Nature sees, Trees cut to statues, statues thick as trees ; 120... | |
 | Rachel Hunter - 1806 - 802 pages
...nature and the god of day; but for the rest let the poet speak — !...•..-.. . •- •:•-. ;. " Grove nods at grove, each alley has a brother, And half the platform just reflects the other; : j The suffering eye inverted Nature sees, Trees cut as statues, statues cut as trees."... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Lisle Bowles - 1806 - 466 pages
...behold the Wall ! No pleafing Intricacies intervene, 1 1 5 No artful wildnefs to perplex the fcene ; Grove nods at grove, each Alley has a brother, And half the platform juft reflects the other. The fuff'ring eye inverted Nature fees, Trees cut to Statues, Statues thick... | |
 | John Black - Dialect drama, Scottish - 1806 - 260 pages
...the fyllables. The modern poets are more uniform, like the gardens which Mr Pope defcribes, where, Grove nods at grove, each alley has a brother, And half the platform juft reflefts the other. But is this a true or falfe taftc ? We certainly borrowed it from the French,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1806 - 474 pages
...truth by me } " But Fortune's (lave thou wert, and a mere empty name." EPISTLE IV. P. 321. Ver. 1 17. Grove nods at grove, each alley has a brother, And half the platform juft reflefts the other. An author of congenial tafte ; and, on a fimilar fubjedl, has made life of... | |
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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. 
