 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
 | Alexander Pope - 1856 - 362 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 ; iso With here... | |
 | Edward Kemp - 1858 - 454 pages
...will now 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
...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... | |
 | Evenings - 1860 - 386 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... | |
 | John Timbs - 1861 - 338 pages
...exact 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 - 920 pages
...regular garden, 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 - 926 pages
...regular garden, 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 - 934 pages
...regular garden, 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
...Church is 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... | |
 | Adam and Charles Black (Firm) - 1863 - 450 pages
...Church is 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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