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" His gardens next your admiration call, 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 Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: In Four Volumes. Collated with the ... - Page 111
by Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808
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Elegant Extracts, Volumes 1-2

Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 pages
...behind Imprtnes the keenness of the northern wind. His gardens next your admiration call ; On ev'ry draws ; And those, without our schools, suffice To...men moral, good, and wise. To I/is Highness Willia ; (irrne nods at grove, each alley has a brother, And half the platform just reflects the other. The...
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The Soldier's Orphan, Volume 3

Mrs. Costello - 1809 - 214 pages
...walks, and regular rows of trees on each side, which brought the following lines of Pope to her mind: Grove nods at grove, each alley has a brother, And half the platform just reflects the other : She tried to divert her thoughts from dwelling on painful subjects, by fixing them on objects new...
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London, by David Hughson, Volume 6

Edward Pugh - 1809 - 784 pages
...reader will perceive, that Mason alludes to the following couple in Pope's Description: Grove nods to grove, each alley has a brother, And half the platform just reflects the other. It is to be lamented that Pope, by his satire on the profuse and ostentatious, but kind and benefic,...
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London;: Being an Accurate History and Description of the British ..., Volume 6

David Hughson - 1809 - 820 pages
...will perceive, that Mason alludes to the following couplet in Pope's Description : t Grove nods to grove, each alley has a brother, And half the platform just reflects the other. It is to be lamented that Pope, by his satire on the profuse and ostentatious, but kind and benefit-,...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including ..., Volume 12

Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 546 pages
...you look, bahold the wall ! No pleasing intricacies intervene, No artful wildncss to p<Tplex > h«- scene ; Grove nods at grove, each alley has a brother,...And half the platform just reflects the other. The sufl'eritig eye inverted Nature SKCS, Trees out to statues, statues thick as trees ; 1 20 With here...
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The Dramatic Works of Ben Jonson, and Beaumont and Fletcher, Volume 2

Ben Jonson, John Fletcher, Francis Beaumont - 1811 - 712 pages
...Faithful Shepherdess? More uniform they are, we allow, like the gardens which Mr. Pope describes, where * Grove nods at grove, each alley has a brother, ' And half the platform just reflects the other. But is this a true or a false taste? We certainly borrowed it from the French in. the Gallic (not Augustine)...
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Odes. Elegies. Sonnets. Epitaphs and inscriptions. Miscellanies. The English ...

William Mason - 1811 - 530 pages
...readers, I suppose, need be informed, that this line alludes to the following couplet : Grove nods to grove, each alley has a brother, And half the platform just reflects the other. Note X. Verse 511. Tlie pencil's power : but, fir' d by higher forms It is said that Mr. Kent frequently...
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The Works of William Mason, M.A. Precentor of York, and Rector of Aston ...

William Mason - 1811 - 524 pages
...readers, I suppose, need be informed, that this line alludes to the following couplet : Grove nods to grove, each alley has a brother, And half the platform just reflects the other. NoteX. Verse 511. The pencil's power : but, fir' d by higher forms It is said that Mr. Kent frequently...
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The works of Alexander Pope. With a selection of explanatory notes ..., Volume 3

Alexander Pope - 1812 - 348 pages
...admiration call, On ev'ry side you look, behold the wall ! No pleasing intricacies intervene, 1 15 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 ; 1 20 With here a...
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Hogarth Illustrated from His Own Manuscripts, Volume 1

1812 - 474 pages
...every night." regular formality that distinguishes the aquatic f raggery of a Dutch burgomaster. , " Grove nods at grove, each alley has a brother, "And half the platform just reflects the other." * A bravo is more properly an Italian than an English charatter; but even in England, the Mofanassassinma-y...
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