 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
 | 1815 - 740 pages
...behold a 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.' " In a letter from Mr. William Parker, Archdeacon of Cornwall, 1674, to his relation Mr. Thomas Parker,... | |
 | 1815 - 554 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." MR. CANNING. , gentleman writes verses better than he makes speeches, If he had as much understanding... | |
 | Characters - 1816 - 46 pages
...the bar, the pulpit, and the throne, " Are touched and shamed by ridicule alone." f " Grove nods at grove, each alley has a brother, " And half the platform just reflects the other." POM. In youth, his soul with spotless honour graced,, Adorned with genuine feeling, wit, and taste... | |
 | Robert Johnston - 1816 - 406 pages
...distant views, to relieve the studied regularity of lengthened avenues and formal walks. " Grove nods at grove, each alley has a brother, And half the platform just reflects the oth«r." It is a remarkable circumstance that in this part of the country, birch, poplar, and some... | |
 | Edward Wedlake Brayley - 1816 - 932 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 ilie other. The suffering eye inverted nature sees. Trees cut to statues statues thick as trees." Although... | |
 | John Evans - 1817 - 610 pages
...gardens are in the regular Dutch style, so aptly described by Pope : — -• • ; Grove nods at grave, each alley has a brother, And half the platform just reflects the other! KING WILLIAM. WILLIAM, the founder of this New Palace, was much attached to the spot. Unaccustomed... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1818 - 624 pages
...strongly remind« one of the well known satire on the exploded taste in gardening: — С rove nods at grove, each alley has a brother, And half the platform just reflects the other. _The sister arts of Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, are very feebly personified. The figure of History... | |
 | John Aikin - 1821 - 402 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 - 1822 - 368 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 print, which... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 370 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 NOTES. print,... | |
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