 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 372 pages
...behold the Wall ! No pleasing Intricacies intervene, 115 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 suff'ring eye inverted Nature sees, Trees cut to Statues, Statues thick as trees ; 120 NOTES. print,... | |
 | 1822 - 284 pages
...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 suffering eye inverted Nature sees, Trees cut to statues, statues thick as trees; With here a fountain... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Lady of rank - 1824 - 408 pages
...stiff — " 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." What shocked me most, undei the Napoleon sway, was the intrusion of -the soldiery, dressed in full... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pages
...behold the wall ! No pleasing intricacies intervene, No artful wildness to perplex the scene ; Grove laces The suffering eye inverted nature sees. Trees cut to statues, statues thick as trees ; With here a... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 422 pages
...behold the wall ! No pleasing intricacies intervene, 115 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 suffering eye inverted Nature sees, Trees cut to statues, statues thick as trees ; 120 With here... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 430 pages
...behold the wall ! No pleasing intricacies intervene, 115 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 suffering eye inverted Nature sees, Trees cut to statues, statues thick as trees ; 120 With here... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1824 - 842 pages
...would have us, into a smug parallelogram of smooth-shaven terraces, and regular quincunx, where • " each alley has a brother, " And half the platform just reflects the other." But ours is a constitution not kept altogether for ornament. We want it for work and for wear ; and... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 460 pages
...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 suffering eye inverted Nature sees, Trees cut to statues, statues thick as trees ; With here a... | |
 | Marianne Baillie - 1825 - 520 pages
...those lines of Pope to my remembrance, wherein he speaks of that peculiar mode of planting. — " Grove nods at grove, each alley has a brother, And half the platform just reflects the other." While I wondered at this coincidence of taste, among the grandees of Portugal, (for almost all the... | |
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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. 
