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
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...crime, Equals the pause, and balances the chime :" Gf. so that, u in Tinwm's garden, " Grove nods at grove, each alley has a brother, And half the platform just reflects the other;" Pope, Mor. Ep. iv. 117 sq. 87. ' Does Romulus (Juv. iii. 67. M.) play the spaniel?' by giving " Sweet... | |
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...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, Tree* cut to statues, statues thick as trees ; With here a... | |
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...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... | |
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...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... | |
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...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... | |
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...paraphrased, is one of the best rules we have in the grouping system, viz. : — " Group nods at group, each alley has a brother, And half the platform just reflects the other." Again, in point of height, the two beds above-mentioned are planted with plants that will not exceed... | |
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| John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 826 pages
...the wall ! No pleasing intricacies intervene, No artful wildness to perplex the scene ; Grove nods at =X | 3 ; ͬ%L N%d -~ 6 . } 6 bD ą Ƌ (he other. The suffering eye inverted Nature sees, Trees cut to statues, statues thick as trees ; With... | |
| Catherine Govion Broglio Solari (march.) - 1845 - 166 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." shown, that in consequence of the decay in the influence of religion in France, the number of instances... | |
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