 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
 | Edward Wilberforce - 1863 - 376 pages
...his Maximilian's Strasse with the same uniformity. And yet we have the same design : " Grove nods at grove, each alley has a brother, And half the platform just reflects the other." In truth, the new street is more faulty than the old. It is very prettily laid out with gardens and... | |
 | John Cooper Grocott - 1863 - 562 pages
...Deumark. SHARSPERE. — Hamlet, Act V. Scene 1. (Hamlet and the First Clown.) GROVE. — Grove nods at grove, each alley has a brother, And half the platform just reflects the other. GROVE. — Star nods to star, each system has its brother, And half the universe reflects the other.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1863 - 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... | |
 | William Lindsay Alexander, John Kitto - 1864 - 936 pages
...garden given in Professor Rosellini's great work (/ Monumenti delF Egilto). Here — ' Grove nods at grove, each alley has a brother, And half the platform just reflects the other.' The royal garden must have formed a most enviable retreat from ' the intolerable day' of an Egyptian... | |
 | Yasmine Gooneratne - 1976 - 164 pages
...tedium No pleasing Intricacies intervene, 1 15 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 balanced rhythm of the couplet form adds emphasis here to the impression of weary monotony Pope... | |
 | Bruce Redford - 1986 - 272 pages
...Burlington: 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. (11. 115-18) Gray had visited both Oatlands and Hampton, as he tells Wharton, with the Dowager Viscountess... | |
 | Charles W. Moore, William John Mitchell, William Turnbull - 1988 - 286 pages
...course): No pleasing intricacies intervene, No artful wilderness to perplex the scene: Grove nods at grove, each alley has a brother, And half the platform just reflects the other. Pope insinuates that symmetrical gardens follow mindless formal rules, with predictably dull results.... | |
 | Meyer Howard Abrams - 1989 - 452 pages
...intricately ordered pattern, it seeks closure by reproducing mirror images of itself : Grove nods at grove, each alley has a brother; And half the platform just reflects the other. The danger is that when the total gridwork is completed, not only have you a place for everything but... | |
 | Detmar Doering - 1990 - 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 äs trees."1 Burke stellt... | |
 | Otfried Schütz - 1993 - 512 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 äs trees."1 Burke stellt... | |
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