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. Black's Guide to London and Its Environs - Page 349by Adam and Charles Black (Firm) - 1870 - 372 pagesFull view - About this book
| William Ayre, Edmund Curll - Poets, English - 1745 - 426 pages
...look, behold the Wall ! No pleafing Intricacies intervene, No artful Wildnefs to perplex the Scene ; Grove nods at Grove, each Alley has a Brother, And half the Platform juft reflecTs .the other. x The fuffr'ing Eye inverted Nature fees, Trees cut to Statues, Statue* thick... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1751 - 272 pages
...littlenefs around, ] Grandeur in building, as in the human frame, takes not its denomination from the Grove nods at grove, each Alley has a brother, And half the platform juft refleas the other. The fuff'ring eye inverted Nature fees, Trees cut to Statues, Statues thick... | |
| Alexander Pope - English literature - 1751 - 274 pages
...the unanirnated parts, how huge foever, are not members of grandeur, but mere heaps of littlenefi. Grove nods at grove, each Alley has a brother, And half the platform juft refleds the other. The fuff'ring eye inverted Nature fees, Trees cut to Statues, Statues thick... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1752 - 378 pages
...look, behold the Wall ! No pleafing Intricacies intervene, 115 No artful wildnefs to perplex the fcene; Grove nods at grove, each Alley has a brother, And half the platform juft reflects the other. The fuff'ring eye inverted Nature fees, Trees cut to Statues, Statues thick... | |
| Alexander Pope - English literature - 1757 - 234 pages
...behold the Wall ! No pleafing Intricacies intervene, 1 15 No artful wildnefs to perplex the fcene ; Grove nods at grove, each Alley has a brother, And half the platform jutt refle&s the other. The fuff'ring eye inverted Nature fees, Trees cut to Statues, Statues thick... | |
| John Ogilvie - Allegories - 1764 - 226 pages
...refinement and delicacy. Thus in fuch a villa as the poet abovemcntioned has deferibed that of Timon ; where Grove nods at grove, each -alley has a brother, And half the platform juft reflects the other. Tafte would be difgufted, where Folly or Ignorance might be rapt in admiration.... | |
| Owen Ruffhead - Biography - 1769 - 600 pages
...behold the Wall ! " No pleanng intricacies intervene, " No artful wildnefs to perplex the fcene ; " Grove nods at Grove, each Alley has a " brother, " And half the platform juft reflects the other. " The fuff'ring eye inverted Nature fees, " Trees cut to Statues, Statues... | |
| Owen Ruffhead - Biography - 1769 - 592 pages
...behold the Wall ! No pleafing intricacies intervene, No artful wildnefs to perplex the fcene;Grove nods at Grove, each Alley has a " brother, And half the platform juft reflects the other. The fuff 'ring eye in verted Nature fees, Trees cut to Statues, Statues thick... | |
| John Bell - English poetry - 1796 - 524 pages
...behold the wall ! 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 suff'ring eye inverted Nature sees, Trees cut to statues, statues thick as trees; uo With here a fountain... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1777 - 262 pages
...look, behold the Wall ! No pleafmg Intricacies intervene, No artful wildnefs to perplex the feene ; Grove nods at grove, each Alley has a brother, And half the platform juft reflects the othcr. The fuff'ring eye inverted Nature fees, Trees cut to Statues, Statues thick... | |
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