 | John Galt - 1831 - 332 pages
...poet — No pleasing intricacies intervene, No artful wildness to perplex the scene; Grove nods to grove, each alley has a brother, And half the platform just reflects the other — for Thomson's forte was not dramatic ; even his elegant power of allusion, which renders " The... | |
 | James Hall - 1833 - 298 pages
...alike as a body of soldiers in regimentals ; reminding one of Pope's description of a garden, where, " No pleasing intricacies intervene, No artful wildness...brother, And half the platform just reflects the other." This neighborhood being secluded, and distant from the sea-board, fashions, coming with a tardy step... | |
 | James Hall - 1834 - 494 pages
...alike as a body of soldiers in regimentals ; reminding one of Pope's description of a garden, where " No pleasing intricacies intervene, No artful wildness...perplex the scene, Grove nods at grove, each alley 1ms a brother, And half the platform just reflects the other." ?. c 6 This This neighbourhood being... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1835 - 378 pages
...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... | |
 | Rev. George William David Evans - 1835 - 408 pages
...this villa too close a resemblance to those monotonous pleasure grounds where, as Pope expresses it, Grove nods at grove, each alley has a brother, And half the platform just reflects the other. The fronts of the principal casino still serve as frames for a variety of ancient relievos; but the interior,... | |
 | sir William Cusack Smith (2nd bart.) - 1835 - 160 pages
...Is Mind material ? * The passage from Pope, which I mean to parody, (I quote from memory,) is this : "Grove nods at grove; each alley has a brother; And half the platform just reflects the other." f Le Philtre Champenois. Whatever my conjectures may be, I cannot tell. You cannot tell ! Assuredly... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1836 - 502 pages
...; a lake behind Improves the keenness of the northern wind. His gardens next your admiration call, «cene: Grove nods at grove, each alley has a brother, And half the platform just reflects the other.... | |
 | 1838 - 716 pages
...Nature? Art has plenty of it; if you look at a piece of landscape gardening you are sure to find it ; " Grove nods at grove, each alley has a brother, And half the platform just reflects the other." But in the natural landscape, and in the natural dialect, this contrivance and correspondence is not... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1839 - 510 pages
...: a lake behind Improve» the keenness of the northern wind. His gardens next your admiration call, , hi a hair as heart ; А ч full, as perfect, in...equals all. X. Cease then, nor ORDEII imperfection name Tree* cut to statues, statues thick as trees ; With here a fountain, never to be play'd ; And there... | |
 | Juvenal - 1839 - 570 pages
...he weighs the crime, Equals the pause, and balances the chime :" Gf. so that, u in Tinwm's garden, " Grove nods at grove, each alley has a brother, And half the platform just reflects the other;" Pope, Mor. Ep. iv. 117 sq. 87. ' Does Romulus (Juv. iii. 67. M.) play the spaniel?' by giving " Sweet... | |
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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. 
