 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 826 pages
...worth the seven: A light which in yourself you must perceive ; Jones and Le Notre have it not to give. 'tis time he should. He 's dead, you say ; then let...rot : I in glad the medalst were forgot I promis'd everywhere be spied, Where half the skill is decently to hide. He gains all poinla, who pleasingly... | |
 | 1844 - 784 pages
...well as the !<"el and the painter, nature, la belle nature, must be the model. In short, "To builr!, to plant, whatever you intend, To rear the column,...sink the grot, In all, let nature never be forgot." Of the elements necessary to constitute a Landfc'ape Garden, namely, grounds, woods, water and buildings,... | |
 | John Wiggins - Ireland - 1844 - 312 pages
...costs 400l. it is not done well, it is overdone : rather, let us quote — TO MAKE IMPROVEMENTS. 231 " To build, to plant, whatever you intend, To rear the column, or the arch to bend, To raise the terrace, or to sink the grot, In all let nature never be forgot :" ie the nature of the subject.... | |
 | John Wiggins - 1844 - 312 pages
...a tenant of 20l. a-year costs 40(W. it is not done well, it is overdone : rather, let us quote— " To build, to plant, whatever you intend, To rear the column, or the arch to bend, To raise the terrace, or to sink the grot, In all let nature never be forgot:" ie the nature of the subject.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1846 - 328 pages
...the arch to bend, To swell the terrace, or to sink the grot, In all, let Nature never be forgot : 3C But treat the goddess like a modest fair, Nor over-dress, nor leave her wholly bare ; Let not each beauty every where be spied, Where half the skill is decently to hide. He gains all points, who pleasingly... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 pages
...garden in Epistle IV of his Moral Essays and we see how the term "Nature" has shifted its meaning: To build, to plant, whatever you intend, To rear the...over-dress, nor leave her wholly bare; Let not each beauty everywhere be spied, Where half the skill is decently to hide. He gains all points who pleasingly confounds,... | |
 | Verlyn Klinkenborg, Herbert Cahoon, Pierpont Morgan Library - Antiques & Collectibles - 1981 - 274 pages
...aesthetic that he and Pope advocated: a belief in proportion, in the decorum that nature provides. To build, to plant, whatever you intend, To rear the Column, or the Arch to bend, To swell the Terras, or to sink the Grot; In all, let Nature never be forgot: [Starting with line 23:] Oft' have... | |
 | Marijke Rudnik-Smalbraak - Literary Criticism - 1983 - 296 pages
...(1731): Something there is more needful than Bxpence, And something previous ev'n to Taste - 'tis Sense: To build, to plant, whatever you intend, To rear the Column, or the Arch to bend, To swell the Terras, or to sink the Grot; In all, let Nature never be forgot. Consult the Genius of the Place in... | |
 | Margaret Anne Doody - Biography & Autobiography - 1988 - 484 pages
...Nature by imitation of divine fiat. It is men who are the busy builders of the Augustan age, undertaking "To rear the Column, or the Arch to bend, / To swell the Terras, or to sink the Grot."23 Dubster is creating his own wonderful works; the journey over his house... | |
 | H. B. Nisbet, Claude Rawson - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 978 pages
...well-known gardens at Twickenham), Pope advised the architect Lord Burlington in his 1731 Epistle: 'To build, to plant, whatever you intend, / To rear the Column, or the Arch to bend, / To swell the Terras, or to sink the Grot; / In all, 14 Shaftesbury, The Moralists, II, pp. 122, 115, 98. " Addison,... | |
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To build, to plant, whatever you intend, To rear the column, or the arch to bend, To swell the terrace, or to sink the grot; In all, let Nature never be forgot. 
