 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.  London, by David Hughson - Page 418by Edward Pugh - 1809Full view - About this book
 | 1801 - 606 pages
...rather green walls in the villas that surround the metropolis of France, where " Grove nods at greve, 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 place where... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 232 pages
...wall ! 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 suff'ring eye inverted Nature sees, Trees cut to statues, statues thick as trees ; 120 With here... | |
 | Rachel Hunter - 1806 - 802 pages
...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." This being... | |
 | John Bell - 1807 - 562 pages
...wall I No pleasing intricacies intervene, 113 No an ful wildness to perplex the scene ; '-we nods at grove, each alley has a brother. And half the platform just reflects the other. The sufi'ring eye inverted Nature sees, Trees cut to statues, statues thick as trees ; 129 Here Amphitrite... | |
 | Isaac Weld - 1807 - 286 pages
...garden. 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. Beyond the precincts of the old gardens, walks and shrubberies have been laid out in a more modern... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1808 - 334 pages
...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 suffering eye inverted Nature sees, Trees cut to statues, statues thick as trees ; With here a... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 328 pages
...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 suffering eye inverted Nature sees, Trees cut to statues, statues thick as trees ; With here a... | |
 | Mrs. Costello - 1809 - 214 pages
...regular rows 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... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 pages
...the wall! No pleasing intricacies intervene, No artful wildness to perplex the scene ; (irrne nods at nd. §gl. FABI.E i. T/if Lion, the Tigcrr. and tlic Traveller. The sufTring eye inverted nature sees, IWs cut to statues, statues thick as trees. ; With here a fountain... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1809 - 608 pages
...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,... | |
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