 | Rev. George William David Evans - 1835 - 408 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1835 - 378 Seiten
...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... | |
 | sir William Cusack Smith (2nd bart.) - 1835 - 160 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...! No pleasing intricacies intervene, No artful wildness to perplex the «cene: Grove nods at grove, k* The suffering eye inverted nature sees. Trees cut to statues, statues thick as tree«; With here a... | |
 | 1838 - 716 Seiten
...vegetables corresponding to each other, must have answered Pope's description of an old-fashioned garden, where " — — — each alley has a brother And half the platform just reflects the other." The garden was surrounded by a thick English hawthorn hedge, which, by age and constant trimming, had... | |
 | Juvenal - 1839 - 572 Seiten
...Equals the pause, and balances the chime :" 6. so that, as in Timon's garden, " Grove nods at grove, each alley has a brother, And half the platform just reflects the other;" Pope, irfor. Ep. iv. 117 sq. 87. ' Does Romulus ( Juv. iii. 67. M.) play the spaniel ?' by giving "... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1839 - 510 Seiten
...! No pleasing intricacies intervene, No artful wildness to perplex the scene ; Grove nods at grove, no great, no small ; He fills, He bounds, connects, and equals all. X. The suffering eye inverted nature sees, Tree* cut to statues, statues thick as trees ; With here a... | |
 | Abigail Adams - 1840 - 320 Seiten
...the water, and you pass through spacious gravel walks, not in straight lines, as Pope expresses it, " where each alley has a brother, And half the platform just reflects the other; " but pleasing intricacies intervene. Through the windz ing paths, and every step, open new objects... | |
 | Abigail Adams - 1840 - 308 Seiten
...the water, and you pass through spacious gravel walks, not in straight lines, as Pope expresses it, " where each alley has a brother, And half the platform just reflects the other; " but pleasing intricacies intervene. Through the winding paths, and every step, open new objects of... | |
 | Humphry Repton - 1840 - 684 Seiten
...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... | |
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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. 
