| John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees - 1816 - 924 pages
...ground. Two cupids squirt before : a lake behind Hit gardeni nest your admiration call, On ever; fide you look, behold the wall ! No pleasing intricacies...wildness to perplex the scene ; Grove nods at grove, each alle; has » brother. And half the platform just reflect! the other. The suffering eye inverted nature... | |
| 1801 - 622 pages
...the dipt hedges or rather green walls in the villas that surround the metropolis of France, where " Grove nods at grove, each alley has a brother, And half the platform just reflects the other," he has sometimes given us nature in a masquerade habit. All this might originate in the place where... | |
| John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees - 1801 - 512 pages
...greatest beauties ; and the formalities of art studiously displayed in every shape of monstrous deformity. The suffering eye inverted nature sees ; Trees cut to statues, statues thick as trees. % POPB. Stowe partook of the general incongruity, and the graceful variety of nature was tortured into... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1804 - 232 pages
...your admiration call ; On ev'ry side you look behold the wall ! No pleasing intricacies intervene, 115 No artful wildness to perplex the scene ; Grove nods...And half the platform just reflects the other. The suff'ring eye inverted Nature sees, Trees cut to statues, statues thick as trees ; 120 With here a... | |
| Rachel Hunter - 1806 - 802 pages
...nature and the god of day; but for the rest let the poet speak — !...•..-.. . •- •:•-. ;. " Grove nods at grove, each alley has a brother, And half the platform just reflects the other; : j The suffering eye inverted Nature sees, Trees cut as statues, statues cut as trees." This being... | |
| Isaac Weld - 1807 - 286 pages
...ground in the country studiously selected for a display of the insipid regularities of a Dutch garden. No pleasing intricacies intervene, No artful wildness...brother, And half the platform just reflects the other. Beyond the precincts of the old gardens, walks and shrubberies have been laid out in a more modern... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1807 - 316 pages
...intervene, 115 No artful wildncss to perplex the scene; Grove nods at grove, each alley has a hrother, And half the platform just reflects the other. The...sees, Trees cut to statues, statues thick as trees; 1W With here a fountain never to he play'd, And there a summer-house that knows no shade; Here Amphitrite... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1807 - 474 pages
...keenness of the northern wind. His gardens next your admiration call ; On every side you look, hehold the wall ! No pleasing intricacies intervene, No artful...the scene ; Grove nods at grove, each alley has a hrother, And half the platform just reflects the other. The suffering eye inverted "Nature sees, Trees... | |
| John Bell - 1807 - 562 pages
...bebold the wall I No pleasing intricacies intervene, 113 No an ful wildness to perplex the scene ; '-we nods at grove, each alley has a brother. And half the platform just reflects the other. The sufi'ring eye inverted Nature sees, Trees cut to statues, statues thick as trees ; 129 Here Amphitrite... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1808 - 334 pages
...whole a labour'd quarry above ground. Two cupids squirt before : a lake behind Improves the keenness of the northern wind. His gardens next your admiration...thick as trees ; With here a fountain never to be pjay'd, And there a summer-house that koows no shade ; Here Aniphitrite sails through myrtle bowers,... | |
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