 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
 | British poets - 1822 - 276 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 fountain... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pages
...the wall ! No pleasing intricacies intervene, No artful wildness to perplex the scene ; Grove nods at all The suffering eye inverted nature sees. Trees cut to statues, statues thick as trees ; With here a... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 422 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 suffering eye inverted Nature sees, Trees cut to statues, statues thick as trees ; 120 With here... | |
 | Lady of rank - 1824 - 408 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." What shocked me most, undei the Napoleon sway, was the intrusion of -the soldiery, dressed in full... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 424 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 suffering eye inverted Nature sees, Trees cut to statues, statues thick as trees ; 120 With here... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1824 - 842 pages
...would have us, into a smug parallelogram of smooth-shaven terraces, and regular quincunx, where • " each alley has a brother, " And half the platform just reflects the other." But ours is a constitution not kept altogether for ornament. We want it for work and for wear ; and... | |
 | Marianne Baillie - 1825 - 520 pages
...of Pope to my remembrance, wherein he speaks of that peculiar mode of planting. — " Grove nods at grove, each alley has a brother, And half the platform just reflects the other." While I wondered at this coincidence of taste, among the grandees of Portugal, (for almost all the... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 460 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 - 1825 - 536 pages
...the wall I 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 ; 12o With here... | |
 | John Aikin - 1826 - 840 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 suffer! ng eye inverted Nature sees. Trees cut to statues, statues thick as trees ; With here a... | |
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