 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.  London, by David Hughson - Page 418by Edward Pugh - 1809Full view - About this book
 | 1767 - 574 pages
...Burlington. Few readers I luppofe need be informed that this line alludes to the following Couplet: Grove nods to Grove, each alley has a brother, And half the platform juft reflefts the other. Which would me emulate, her daring hand Mud l.ivilh all its energy fublime.... | |
 | John Bell - English poetry - 1796 - 524 pages
...wall ! No pleasing intricacies intervene, 1 15 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; uo With here... | |
 | William Mason - 1778 - 168 pages
...Burlington. Few readers, I fuppofe, need be informed that this line alludes to the following Couplet : Grove nods to Grove, each alley has a brother, And half the platform juft reflecls the other. =f- It is faid that Mr. Kent frequently declared he caught his tafte in gardening... | |
 | William Mason - English poetry - 1783 - 264 pages
...Burlington. Few readers, I fuppofr, need be informed that this line alludes to the following couplet : Grove nods to Grove, each alley has a brother, And half the platform juft reflects the other. NOTE X. Verfe 511. The pencil's power : but, fir'd by higher forms It is faid... | |
 | William Mason - Gardens - 1783 - 268 pages
...Burlington. Few readers, I fuppofe, need he informed that this line alludes to the following couplet : Giove nods to Grove, each alley has a brother, And half the platform juft reflects the other. NOTE X. Verfe 511. The pencils power : but, fir'd by higher forms It is faid... | |
 | 1792 - 530 pages
...B. i. The reader will perceive, that Mafon alludes to the following couplet in Pope's defcription : Grove nods to grove, each alley has a brother, And half the platform juft reflects the other. It is to be lamented that Pope, by his fatire on the prof ufe and oftentatious,... | |
 | John Bew - 1793 - 330 pages
...GA»DIN,BI The reader will perceive, that Mafon alludes to the following couplet in Pope's defcriptiou : Grove nods to grove, each alley has a "brother, ' And half the platform juft reflects the other. It is fo be lamented that Pope, by his fatireon the profufe and oftentatious,... | |
 | George Lipscomb - England - 1799 - 394 pages
...the same formal style which, has been humorously ridiculed by a celebrated poet. f " Grove nrxls at grove, each alley has a brother, And half the platform just reflects the other." Landedric is said to have been founded in the time of the Saxons, as the name Edric seems to indicate;... | |
 | Great Britain - 1801 - 622 pages
...hedges or rather green walls in the villas that surround the metropolis of France, where " Grove nods at grove, each alley has a brother, And half the platform just reflects the other," he has sometimes given us nature in a masquerade habit. All this might originate in the place where... | |
 | Biography - 1801 - 602 pages
...rather green walls in the villas that surround the metropolis of France, where " Grove nods at grave, each alley has a brother, «' And half the platform just reflects the other," he has sometimes given us nature in a masquerade habit. All this might originate in the place where... | |
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