 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1846 - 416 pages
...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. The suffering eye inverted nature sees, Trees cut to statues, statues thick... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 524 pages
...which Sir Joshua Reynolds always defended against the common cant of its being heavy.— Warton. L_ 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... | |
 | Floriculture - 1848 - 606 pages
...largu square garden, given in Professor Rosellitn's great work, / Monumenli dell' Eyitto. Here — " Grove nods at grove, each alley has a brother, And half the platform just reflect« the other." This royal garden must have formed a most enviable retreat from " the intolerable... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Charles Macready - 1849 - 646 pages
...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. The suffering eye inverted nature sees, Trees cut to statues, statues thick... | |
 | Yasmine Gooneratne - Literary Criticism - 1976 - 164 pages
...the point of tedium 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 balanced rhythm of the couplet form adds emphasis here to the impression... | |
 | Bruce Redford - Biography & Autobiography - 1986 - 272 pages
...Epistle to Burlington: 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. (11. 115-18) Gray had visited both Oatlands and Hampton, as he tells Wharton,... | |
 | Charles W. Moore, William John Mitchell, William Turnbull - Architecture - 1988 - 286 pages
...couplets, of course): No pleasing intricacies intervene, No artful wilderness to perplex the scene: Grove nods at grove, each alley has a brother, And half the platform just reflects the other. Pope insinuates that symmetrical gardens follow mindless formal rules, with... | |
 | Meyer Howard Abrams - Literary Criticism - 1989 - 452 pages
...you begin an intricately ordered pattern, it seeks closure by reproducing mirror images of itself : Grove nods at grove, each alley has a brother; And half the platform just reflects the other. The danger is that when the total gridwork is completed, not only have you... | |
 | Detmar Doering - Classicism - 1990 - 330 pages
...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. The suffering eye inverted nature sees, Trees cut to statues, statues thick... | |
 | Otfried Schütz - Art - 1993 - 512 pages
...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. The suffering eye inverted nature sees, Trees cut to statues, statues thick... | |
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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. 
