 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 372 pages
...mode in gardening, by a paper in the Guardian, No. 173, levelled against capricious operations of art, Who random drawings from your sheets shall take, And of one beauty many blunders make ; NOTES. and every species of verdant sculpture and inverted nature; which paper abounds with wit as... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pages
...magnificence I You show us Rome was glorious, not profuse, And pompous buildings once were things of use. Yet shall (my lord) your just, your noble rules Fill...Load some vain church with old theatric state, Turn ares of triumph to a garden gate ; Reverse your ornaments, and hang them all On some pntch'd dog-hole... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 422 pages
...And pompous buildings once were things of use. Yet shall (my Lord) your just, your noble rules, 25 Fill half the land with imitating fools ; Who random...with old theatric state, Turn arcs of triumph to a garden-gate ; 30 NOTES. nature ; and therefore, as appears both from profane and sacred history, has... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 424 pages
...And pompous buildings once were things of use. Yet shall (my Lord) your just, your noble rules, 25 Fill half the land with imitating fools ; Who random...with old theatric state, Turn arcs of triumph to a garden-gate ; 30 NOTES. nature ; and therefore, as appears both from profane and sacred history, has... | |
 | 1824 - 486 pages
...majority of readers may be better pleased to see its spirit expressed in the following lines from Pope : " Fill half the land with imitating fools Who random drawings from your sheets shall take And of one heauty many blunders make ; Load some vain church with old theatric state, Turn arcs of triumph to... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 498 pages
...stroke of satire on ill-placed ornaments. He has more openly ridiculed them in his Epistle on Taste : " Load some vain church with old theatric state, Turn arcs of triumph to a garden gate." Warbvrton. He is said to have alluded to the entrance of Lord Peterborough's lawn at Bevismount, near... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 494 pages
...stroke of satire on ill-placed ornaments. He has more openly ridiculed them in his Epistle on Taste : " Load some vain church with old theatric state, Turn arcs of triumph to a garden gate." Warburton, He is said to have alluded to the entrance of Lord Peterborough's lawn at Bevismount, near... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 460 pages
...magnificence ! You show us Rome was glorious, not profuse, And pompous buildings once were things of use ; Yet shall, my lord, your just, your noble rules Fill...vain church with old theatric state ; Turn arcs of trinmph to a garden gate ; Reverse your ornaments, and hang them all On some patch'd dog-hole eked... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1825 - 536 pages
...magnificence! You shew us, Rome was glorious, not profuse, And pompous buildings once were things of use. Yet shall, my lord, your just, your noble rules Fill...make ; Load some vain church with old theatric state, Turns arcs of Triumph to a garden-gate ; 30 Reverse your ornaments, and bang them all On some patch'd... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 pages
...magnifieenee ! You show us Rome was glorious, not profuse, And pompous buildings onee were things of use. e I eensure — you know what I mean — To ehureh with old theatrie state, Turn ares of triumph to a garden gate ; ReVITSe your ornaments, and... | |
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You show us Rome was glorious, not profuse, And pompous buildings once were things of use; Yet shall, my lord, your just, your noble rules, Fill half the land with imitating fools ; Who random drawings from your sheets shall take; And of one beauty many... 
