 | Railroadiana - 1839 - 266 pages
...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." Stowe partook of the general incongruity; and the graceful variety of Nature was tortured into stiffness... | |
 | Humphry Repton - 1840 - 684 pages
...natural landscape ; as by the satirical allusions of Pope, in this couplet, so often quoted : — " Grove nods at grove, each alley has a brother, And half the platform just reflects the other." When every villa had its little symmetrical garden thus laid out, it is not to be wondered that the... | |
 | Humphry Repton - 1840 - 672 pages
...natural landscape ; as by the satirical allusions of Pope, in this couplet, so often quoted : — " Grove nods at grove, each alley has a brother, And half the platform just reflects the other." When every villa had its little symmetrical garden thus laid out, it is not to be wondered that the... | |
 | John Aikin - 1841 - 840 pages
...before : a lake behind Improves the keenness of the northern wind His gardens next your admiration call. rubbed, died a-top, was stunted ; So the next reflect» the other. The suffering oye inverted Nature sees, Trees cut to statues, statues thick as... | |
 | John Aikin - 1843 - 826 pages
...before : a lake behind Improves the keenness of the northern wind His gardens next your admiration call, ; Nothing themselves, and yet expressing (he other. The suffering eye inverted Nature sees, Trees cut to statues, statues thick as trees ; With... | |
 | John Aikin - 1843 - 830 pages
...before : a lake behind Improves the keenness of the northern wind His gardens next your admiration call, e. Toil was not then. Of nothing took they heed. But...beasts the sylvan war to wage. And o'er vast plains t j Grove nods at grove, each alley has a brother. And half the platform just reflects the other. The... | |
 | George Henry Wathen - 1843 - 322 pages
...remarkably displayed in the plan of a large square garden given in Professor Rosellini's great work. Here " Grove nods at grove, each alley has a brother, And half the platform just reflects the other." * The modern Egyptians use a close lattice for the same purpose. This royal garden must have formed a most... | |
 | Catherine Govion Broglio Solari (march.) - 1845 - 166 pages
...tribe." Nature is entirely lost sight of. All is formal — all is monotonous — all is stiff— " No pleasing intricacies intervene, No artful wildness...brother, And half the platform just reflects the other." shown, that in consequence of the decay in the influence of religion in France, the number of instances... | |
 | Elizabeth Stone - 1845 - 472 pages
...Court are in the formal style which, borrowed from France, was considered then the thing — " When grove nods at grove, each alley has a brother, And half the platform just reflects the other." We read of much more magnificent gardens at an earlier period ; those at Theobald's must have been... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1846 - 282 pages
...: a lake behind Improves the keenness of the northern wind. His gardens next your admiration call : On every side you look, behold the wall ! No pleasing...thick as trees ; With here a fountain never to be play' d ; And there a summer-house that knows no shade ; Here Amphitrite sails through myrtle bowers,... | |
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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. 
