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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. "
Life of Francis Beaumont. Life of John Fletcher. Prefaces. Commendatory ... - Page 399
by Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher - 1811
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Bell's Edition, Volumes 75-76

John Bell - 1796 - 524 pages
...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...
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A Journey Into Cornwall, Through the Counties of Southampton, Wilts, Dorset ...

George Lipscomb - 1799 - 394 pages
...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;...
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The Life of David Garrick, Esq, Volume 1

Arthur Murphy - 1801 - 434 pages
...again, 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. , This is too much the case in the play before us. The dialogue runs generally into long speeches,...
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Public Characters

1801 - 622 pages
...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...
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Public Characters, Volume 3

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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Public characters [Formerly British public characters] of 1798-9 ..., Volume 3

1801 - 606 pages
...rather green walls in the villas that surround the metropolis of France, where " Grove nods at greve, 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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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: With His Last Corrections ..., Volume 3

Alexander Pope - 1804 - 232 pages
...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 With here...
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Lady Maclairn, the victim of villany, Volumes 1-2

Rachel Hunter - 1806 - 802 pages
...day; but for the rest let the poet speak — !...•..-.. . •- •:•-. ;. " Grove nods at grove, each alley has a brother, And half the platform just reflects the other; : j The suffering eye inverted Nature sees, Trees cut as statues, statues cut as trees." This being...
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Illustrations of the Scenery of Killarney and the Surrounding Country

Isaac Weld - 1807 - 286 pages
...garden. 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. Beyond the precincts of the old gardens, walks and shrubberies have been laid out in a more modern...
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The poets of Great Britain complete from Chaucer to Churchill, Volume 40

John Bell - 1807 - 562 pages
...No pleasing intricacies intervene, 113 No an ful wildness to perplex the scene ; '-we nods at grove, each alley has a brother. And half the platform just reflects the other. The sufi'ring eye inverted Nature sees, Trees cut to statues, statues thick as trees ; 129 Here Amphitrite...
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