| Edward Wedlake Brayley - 1816 - 946 pages
...northern wind. J1.3 Hit gardens ueit your admiration call, On every side you look, behold the nail ' No pleasing intricacies intervene. No artful wildness...perplex the scene , Grove nods at grove, each alley hits a brother, And half the platform j ust reflects the other. The suffering eye inverted nature sees.... | |
| Robert Johnston - 1816 - 406 pages
...hills nor distant views, to relieve the studied regularity of lengthened avenues and formal walks. " Grove nods at grove, each alley has a brother, And half the platform just reflects the oth«r." It is a remarkable circumstance that in this part of the country, birch, poplar, and some... | |
| John Britton - 1816 - 944 pages
...intricacies intervene. No artfol wildness to perplex the scene , Grove nods at grove, each alley hns a brother, And half the platform just reflects the other. The suffering eye inverted nature sees, Treei cut to statues, statues thick a« trees." Although the building raised by i Ins magnificent nobleman... | |
| Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1818 - 624 pages
...and strongly remind« one of the well known satire on the exploded taste in gardening: — С rove nods at grove, each alley has a brother, And half the platform just reflects the other. _The sister arts of Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, are very feebly personified. The figure of History... | |
| John Aikin - 1820 - 832 pages
...: a lake behind Improves the keenness of the northern wind. His gardens next your admiration call, Subjected to his service angel-wings, And flaming ministers wildncss to perplex the scene ; Grove nods at grove, each alley lias a brother, And half the platform... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1822 - 370 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 NOTES. print,... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1822 - 368 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 print, which... | |
| British poets - 1822 - 310 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. i0 The pencil's power: tut, fred by higher forms.] It is said that Mr. Kent frequently declared he... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1824 - 424 pages
...your admiration call, On every side you look, behold the wall ! No pleasing intricacies intervene, 115 No artful wildness to perplex the scene ; Grove nods...sees, Trees cut to statues, statues thick as trees ; 120 With here a fountain, never to be play'd ; And there a summer-house, that knows no shade ; Here... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1824 - 422 pages
...your admiration call, On every side you look, behold the wall ! No pleasing intricacies intervene, 115 No artful wildness to perplex the scene ; Grove nods...sees, Trees cut to statues, statues thick as trees ; 120 With here a fountain, never to be play'd ; And there a summer-house, that knows no shade ; Here... | |
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