 | Isaac Weld - 1812 - 360 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...perplex the scene .Grove nods at grove, each alley haa a brother, And half the platform just reflects the other. Beyond the precincts of the old gardens,... | |
 | John Britton - 1812 - 1070 pages
...followed tbe fortune! of his royal master, Jamei the second, and died at St. Germain's in 1696. Ho pleasing intricacies intervene, No artful wildness...perplex the scene ; Grove nods at grove, each alley bai a brother. And half the platform just reflects the other." POFX. Some few of these fanciful ornaments... | |
 | John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees - 1812 - 1052 pages
...nobleman followed the fortunes of his royal master, James the second, and died at St. Germain's in 1696.. No pleasing intricacies intervene, No artful wildness to perplex the scene ; Grove nods at gruve, each alley has a brother. And half the platfurru jnst reflects the other." Port. Some few of... | |
 | Thomas Downes Wilmot Dearn - 1814 - 380 pages
...grounds in Harris's History of Kent, the bad taste of those days is rendered strikingly manifest, where " Grove nods at grove, each alley has a brother, And half the platform just reflects the other." This fashion, the spurious offspring of Batavian parents, but nurtured and matured by the folly of... | |
 | Thomas Downes Wilmot Dearn - 1814 - 382 pages
...bad taste of those days is rendered strikingly manifest, where •;.:..'.- r .;/.. y • "Grove rtods at grove, each alley Has a brother, And half the platform just reflects the other." This fashion, the spurious offspring of Batavian parents, but nurtured and matured by the folly of... | |
 | Thomas Lister Parker - 1815 - 186 pages
...fashion of the times : - > " His gardens next your admiration call; " On every side you look, behold a wall ; *' No pleasing intricacies intervene, " No..." And half the platform just reflects the other." ... In a letter from Mr. William Parker, Archdeacon of Cornwall, 1674, to his relation Mr. Thomas Parker,... | |
 | 1815 - 740 pages
...formal fashion of the times : ' His gardens next your admiration call; On every side you look, behold a wall; No pleasing intricacies intervene, No artful...brother, And half the platform just reflects the other.' " In a letter from Mr. William Parker, Archdeacon of Cornwall, 1674, to his relation Mr. Thomas Parker,... | |
 | 1815 - 704 pages
...look, behold a wall ; No pleasing intricacies intervene, No artful wildness to perplex the scene; Crave nods at grove, each alley has a brother, And half the platform just reflects the other.' " In a letter from Mr. William Parker, •Archdeacon of Cornwall, 1674, to his relation Mr. Thomas... | |
 | Edward Wedlake Brayley - 1816 - 932 pages
...behind Improves the keenness of the northern wind. His garden) next your admiration call, On every tide you look, behold the wall " No pleasing intricacies...has a brother, And half the platform just reflects ilie other. The suffering eye inverted nature sees. Trees cut to statues statues thick as trees." Although... | |
 | Characters - 1816 - 46 pages
...many, " Safe from the bar, the pulpit, and the throne, " Are touched and shamed by ridicule alone." f " Grove nods at grove, each alley has a brother, " And half the platform just reflects the other." POM. In youth, his soul with spotless honour graced,, Adorned with genuine feeling, wit, and taste... | |
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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. 
