 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.  Letters of Mrs. Adams: The Wife of John Adams - Page 194by Abigail Adams - 1840Full view - About this book
 | James Hall - 1853 - 448 pages
...'i No pleasing intricacies intervene, No artful wiidness to perplex the scene, Grove nods at grove, each alley has a brother, And half the platform just reflects the other." This neighbourhood being secluded, and distant from the seaboard, fashions, coming with a tardy step... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1854 - 338 pages
...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 as trees ; 120 With here... | |
 | Where - 1855 - 86 pages
...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. Troilus and Cressida, act... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1856 - 362 pages
...! 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 ; iso With here... | |
 | Edward Kemp - 1858 - 454 pages
...be forward to dispute. The ridicule conveyed in the well-known couplet, — " Grove nods at grove, each alley has a brother, And half the platform just reflects the other ; " — is, though widely circulated, and often revived, by no means to be admitted as the " test of... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1859 - 330 pages
...! 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... | |
 | Evenings - 1860 - 386 pages
...! 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... | |
 | John Timbs - 1861 - 338 pages
...distances," the style which Pope so happily satirizes in one of his Epistles : — Grove nods at grove, each alley has a brother, And half the platform Just reflects the other. It seems that the first use to which the principle of the kaleidoscope was applied, was that of assisting... | |
 | 1862 - 926 pages
...where No pleasing intricacies intervene, No artful wildness to perplex the scene ; Grove nods to 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, compared with... | |
 | 1862 - 460 pages
...seen down the avenue on the left. The scene reminds us of Pope's couplet, — " Grove nods at grove, each alley has a brother, And half the platform just reflects the other." The Queen's Audience Chamber. 509. The Woman of Samaria, by Palma. 510. Henry VIII., his Queen, Jane... | |
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