 | Alexander Pope - 1846 - 328 sivua
...the arch to bend, To swell the terrace, or to sink the grot, In all, let Nature never be forgot : 3C But treat the goddess like a modest fair, Nor over-dress, nor leave her wholly bare ; Let not each beauty every where be spied, Where half the skill is decently to hide. He gains all points, who pleasingly... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 524 sivua
...the seven : A light, which in yourself you must perceive ; 45 Jones and Le Notre have it not to give. To build, to plant, whatever you intend, To rear the column, or the arch to bend ; COMMENTARY. Ver. 39. Oft have you hinted to your brother Peer, A certain truth, — ] and in this... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1848 - 642 sivua
...40 A light which in yourself you must perceive j Jones and Le Notre have it not to give. To huild, to plant, whatever you intend, To rear the column, or the arch to hend, To swell the terrace, or to sink the grot, In all, let Nature never he forgot : 56 But treat... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Charles Macready - 1849 - 646 sivua
...the seven : A light, which in yourself you must perceive ; Jones and Le Notre i have it not to give. To build, to plant, whatever you intend, To rear the column, or the arch to bend, To swell the ten-ace, or to sink the grot ; In all, let nature never be forgot. But treat the goddess like a modest... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 sivua
...garden in Epistle IV of his Moral Essays and we see how the term "Nature" has shifted its meaning: To build, to plant, whatever you intend, To rear the...over-dress, nor leave her wholly bare; Let not each beauty everywhere be spied, Where half the skill is decently to hide. He gains all points who pleasingly confounds,... | |
 | Verlyn Klinkenborg, Herbert Cahoon, Pierpont Morgan Library - 1981 - 274 sivua
...aesthetic that he and Pope advocated: a belief in proportion, in the decorum that nature provides. To build, to plant, whatever you intend, To rear the Column, or the Arch to bend, To swell the Terras, or to sink the Grot; In all, let Nature never be forgot: [Starting with line 23:] Oft' have... | |
 | Marijke Rudnik-Smalbraak - 1983 - 296 sivua
...(1731): Something there is more needful than Bxpence, And something previous ev'n to Taste - 'tis Sense: To build, to plant, whatever you intend, To rear the Column, or the Arch to bend, To swell the Terras, or to sink the Grot; In all, let Nature never be forgot. Consult the Genius of the Place in... | |
 | Margaret Anne Doody - 1988 - 484 sivua
...Nature by imitation of divine fiat. It is men who are the busy builders of the Augustan age, undertaking "To rear the Column, or the Arch to bend, / To swell the Terras, or to sink the Grot."23 Dubster is creating his own wonderful works; the journey over his house... | |
 | H. B. Nisbet, Claude Rawson - 2005 - 978 sivua
...well-known gardens at Twickenham), Pope advised the architect Lord Burlington in his 1731 Epistle: 'To build, to plant, whatever you intend, / To rear the Column, or the Arch to bend, / To swell the Terras, or to sink the Grot; / In all, 14 Shaftesbury, The Moralists, II, pp. 122, 115, 98. " Addison,... | |
 | John Dixon Hunt - 1992 - 414 sivua
...smack too much of art's interference, Repton would have retorted with Pope's injunction about Nature: But treat the Goddess like a modest fair, Nor overdress, nor leave her wholly bare. It is a couplet that he seems to evoke in his praise of Watteau's gardens where "nature is dressed,... | |
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To build, to plant, whatever you intend. To rear the column, or the arch to bend, To swell the terrace, or to sink the grot; In all, let nature never be forgot. 
