 | William Ayre, Edmund Curll - 1745 - 426 pages
...Platform juft reflecTs .the other. x The fuffr'ing Eye inverted Nature fees, Trees cut to Statues, Statue* thick as Trees, With here a Fountain, never to be play'd, And there a Summer-Houfe that knows no Shade. Here Amphitrhe fails thro' Myrtle Bowers ; There Gladiators fight,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1767 - 288 pages
...brother, • And half the platform juft reflects the other. The fuffering eye inverted Nature fees, Trees cut to Statues, Statues thick as trees ; With...here a Fountain, never to be play'd ; And there a Summer-houfe, that knows no fhade| Here Amphitrite fails thro' myrtle bow'rs ; There § Gladiators... | |
 | Owen Ruffhead - 1769 - 600 pages
...brother, " And half the platform juft reflects the other. " The fuff'ring eye inverted Nature fees, " Trees cut to Statues, Statues thick as trees ; " With...here a Fountain, never to be play'd ; " And there a Summer-houfe* that knows no " fhade; " Here Amphitrite fails through myrtle bow'rs ; " There Gladiators... | |
 | Owen Ruffhead - 1769 - 592 pages
..." brother, And half the platform juft reflects the other. The fuff 'ring eye in verted Nature fees, Trees cut to Statues, Statues thick as trees ; With...here a Fountain, never to be play'd ; And there a Summer-houfe, that knows no "ihade; Here Amphitrite fails through myrtle bow'rs ; There Gladiators... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1777 - 262 pages
...has a brother, And half the platform juft reflects the othcr. The fuff'ring eye inverted Nature fees, Trees cut to Statues, Statues thick as trees ; With here a Fountain never to be play'd ; And there a Summer-houfe, that knows no lhade ; Here Amphitrite fails thro" myrtle bow'rs; There Gladiators fight,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1783 - 322 pages
...has a brother, And half the platform juft reflects the other. The fuff'ring eye inverted Nature fees, Trees cut to Statues, Statues thick as Trees ; With here a Fountain, never to be play'd; And there a Summer-houfe, that knows no madei Here Amphitrite fails through myrtle bow'rs ; There Gladiators fight,... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1791 - 510 pages
...platform juft reflefts the other. The fufPring eye inverted nature fees, . Trees cut to ftatues, ftatues thick as trees ; With here a fountain never to be play'd; And there a fummer-houle that knows no (bade; Hcr« Amphitrite fail* thro' myrtle bow'rs; There gladiators fight,... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1791 - 966 pages
...platform juft reflects the other. The fufFring eye inverted nature fees, Trees cut to ftatues, ftatues thick as trees ; With here a fountain, never to be play'd ; And there a lummer-houfe, that knows no made; Here Amphitrite fails thr6' myrtle bow'rs ; There gladiators fight,... | |
 | Samuel Ireland - 1796 - 314 pages
...ornaments ; while «' The luff'ring eye inverted nature fees, " Trees cut to ftatues, ftatues cut to trees ; " With here a fountain never to be play'd, * And there a fummer-houfe that knows no fhade.1' I DO not advance this ftricture on Dutch gardening as tiniverfal;... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 232 pages
...the other. The suff'ring eye inverted Nature sees, Trees cut to statues, statues thick as trees ; 120 With here a fountain never to be play'd, And there...summerhouse that knows no shade ; Here Amphitrite sails thro' myrtle bow'rs, There gladiators fight or die in flow'rs ; Unwater'd see the drooping seahorse... | |
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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. The... 
