 | William Ayre, Edmund Curll - 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 as Trees, With here a... | |
 | William Ayre, Edmund Curll - 1745 - 432 pages
...intervene, ,No artful Wildnefs to;perplex the Scene; Grove nods at Grove, each Alley has a Brodjrij, And half the Platform juft reflects the other. The fuffr'ing Eye inverted Naturerfees, Trees cut to Statues, Statues thick .as TreeSjj With here a Fountain, never to be .play'd,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 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 as trees... | |
 | 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 as trees... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1754 - 236 pages
...your admiration call, On ev'ry fide you look, behold the Wall! No pleafmg Intricacies intervene, I15 No artful wildnefs to perplex the fcene ; Grove nods...each Alley has a brother, And half the platform juft reflefts the other. VER. 117, 118. Grove nods at grove, each Al'ey bas a brother, And half the platform... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1757 - 234 pages
...admiration call, On ev'rjtfide you look, behold the Wall ! No pleafing Intricacies intervene, 1 15 No artful wildnefs to perplex the fcene ; Grove nods...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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1760 - 402 pages
...your admiration call, On ev'ry fide you look, behold the Wall ! No pleafing Intricacies intervene, njp No artful wildnefs to perplex the fcene ; Grove nods...And half the platform juft reflects the other. The fufPring eye inverted Nature fees, Trees cut to Statues, Statues thick as trees; 120 NOTES. VER. 109.... | |
 | John Ogilvie - 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. Yet as fome degree... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1767 - 290 pages
...next your admiration call, On ev'ry fide you look, behold the Wall ! No pleafmg Intricacies intervene, No artful wildnefs to perplex the fcene ; Grove nods...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,... | |
 | 1767 - 572 pages
...readers I iuppoie need be informed that this line alludes to the following Couplet : Grovt no<!s to Grove, each alley has a brother, And half the platform juft reflects the other. •f- It is fatd that Mr. Kent frequently declared he caught his tafte in gardening finm reading the... | |
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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. 
