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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... "
The poetical works of Alexander Pope, with a life, by A. Dyce - Page 131
by Alexander Pope - 1863
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Andrea Palladio: His Life and Works

Sir Banister Fletcher - 1902 - 268 pages
...Burlington : " 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...theatric state, Turn arcs of triumph to a garden gate ; ***** Shall call the winds through long arcades to roar, Proud to catch cold at a Venetian door."...
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The Poems of Alexander Pope: A One-volume Edition of the Twickenham Text ...

Alexander Pope - 1963 - 884 pages
...profuse, 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 Reverse your Ornaments, and hang them all On some patch'd dog-hole ek'd with ends of...
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The Genius of the Place: The English Landscape Garden 1620-1820

John Dixon Hunt, Peter Willis - 1988 - 420 pages
...was glorious, not profuse, And pompous Buildings once were things of use. Just as they are, yet shall your noble Rules Fill half the Land with Imitating...make; Load some vain Church with old Theatric State; 213 Turn Arcs of Triumph to a Garden-gate; Reverse your Ornaments, and hang them all On some patch'd...
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Architecture in Britain, 1530 to 1830

John Summerson, John Newenham Summerson, Sir - 1993 - 592 pages
...pompous buildings once were things of Use. Yet shall (my Lord) your just, your noble rules, I-'ill half the land with Imitating Fools; Who random drawings from your sheets shall take, And of one beauty manv blunders make; Load some vain Church with old Theatric state. Turn Ares of Triumph to a Garden-gate;...
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The European Nobility, 1400-1800

Jonathan Dewald - 1996 - 236 pages
...aristocrat-architects, Lord Burlington, and noted the degree to which others were taking up the fashion: "Yet shall, my Lord, your just, your noble rules/ Fill half the land with Imitating-Fools." Wisely or foolishly, gentlemen were now expected to involve themselves in matters...
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Classical Culture and the Idea of Rome in Eighteenth-Century England

Philip Ayres - 1997 - 308 pages
...profuse, And pompous buildings once were things of Use. Yet shall (my Lord) your just, your noble rules Who random drawings from your sheets shall take, And...with old Theatric state, Turn Arcs of triumph to a Garden-gate; Reverse your Ornaments, and hang them all On some patch'd dog-hole ek'd with ends of wall,...
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Selected Poetry

Alexander Pope - 1998 - 260 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...with old theatric state, Turn arcs of triumph to a garden-gate; 30 Reverse your ornaments, and hang them all On some patched dog-hole eked with ends of...
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The Emergence of Modern Architecture: A Documentary History from 1000 to 1810

Alexander Tzonis - 2004 - 554 pages
...Meats: i...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...with old Theatric state, Turn Arcs of triumph to a Garden-gate; Reverse your Ornaments, and hang them all On some patch'd dog-hole ek'd with ends of wall,...
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Reading London: Urban Speculation and Imaginative Government in Eighteenth ...

Erik Bond - 2007 - 306 pages
...didactic ground rules, critics rarely cite the lines that immediately follow this supposed moral anchor: Yet shall (my Lord) your just, your noble rules Fill...with old Theatric state, Turn Arcs of triumph to a Garden-gate; Reverse your Ornaments, and hang them all On some patch'd dog-hole ek'd with ends of wall,...
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Art and Money in the Writings of Tobias Smollett

William Gibson - 2007 - 236 pages
...(1731): 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...make; Load some vain Church with old Theatric state. Conscious they act a true Palladian part, And if they starve, they starve by rules of art.40 Mrs. Baynard,...
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