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 American Monthly Magazine - Sivu 3141838Koko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
| Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 328 sivua
...! 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 as trees ; With here a fountain... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1808 - 334 sivua
...! 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 as trees ; With here a fountain... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1809 - 608 sivua
...and clenches in style. They too much resemble a garden laid out according to Pope's description, " Where each alley has a brother, And half the platform just reflects the other.'' On moving an Address to the Throne, containing a Declaration of Rights. IN his speech on this occasion,... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 sivua
...No pleasing intricacies intervene, No artful wildness to perplex the scene ; (irrne nods at grove, l. FABI.E i. T/if Lion, the Tigcrr. and tlic Traveller. sufTring eye inverted nature sees, IWs cut to statues, statues thick as trees. ; With here a fountain... | |
| Edward Pugh - 1809 - 784 sivua
...will perceive, that Mason alludes to the following couple in Pope's Description: Grove nods to grove, each alley has a brother, And half the platform just reflects the other. It is to be lamented that Pope, by his satire on the profuse and ostentatious, but kind and benefic,... | |
| Mrs. Costello - 1809 - 214 sivua
...of trees on each side, which brought the following lines of Pope to her mind: Grove nods at grove, each alley has a brother, And half the platform just reflects the other : She tried to divert her thoughts from dwelling on painful subjects, by fixing them on objects new... | |
| David Hughson - 1809 - 820 sivua
...perceive, that Mason alludes to the following couplet in Pope's Description : t Grove nods to grove, each alley has a brother, And half the platform just reflects the other. It is to be lamented that Pope, by his satire on the profuse and ostentatious, but kind and benefit-,... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 546 sivua
...No pleasing intricacies intervene, No artful wildncss to p<Tplex > h«- scene ; Grove nods at grove, each alley has a brother, And half the platform just reflects the other. The sufl'eritig eye inverted Nature SKCS, Trees out to statues, statues thick as trees ; 1 20 With here... | |
| William Mason - 1811 - 516 sivua
...I suppose, need be informed, that this line alludes to the following couplet : Grove nods to grove, each alley has a brother, And half the platform just reflects the other. Note X. Verse 511. The pencil's power : but, fir' 'd by higher forms It is said that Mr. Kent frequently... | |
| Ben Jonson, John Fletcher, Francis Beaumont - 1811 - 712 sivua
...uniform they are, we allow, like the gardens which Mr. Pope describes, where * Grove nods at grove, each alley has a brother, ' And half the platform just reflects the other. But is this a true or a false taste? We certainly borrowed it from the French in. the Gallic (not Augustine)... | |
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