 | Vicesimus Knox - 1796 - 1008 oldal
...behold the wall ! No plenfing intricacies intervene, No artful wildnefs to perplex the fcene ; Cïrove nods at grove, each alley has a brother, And half the platform juft refle¿ts the other. The lurT'ring eye inverted nature fees, Trees cut to ftatucs, ftatues thick... | |
 | Samuel Ireland - 1796
...ornaments ; while «' The luff'ring eye inverted nature fees, " Trees cut to ftatues, ftatues cut to trees ; " With here a fountain never to be play'd, * And there a fummer-houfe that knows no fhade.1' I DO not advance this ftricture on Dutch gardening as tiniverfal;... | |
 | Gilbert Wakefield - 1796 - 348 oldal
...apvu.ooitv;, Peneus with Jilver winding* : which is quite a different affair. CL Ver. 117. ^ 1 Ver. 117. Grove nods at grove, each alley has a brother, And half the platform juft reflefts the other. An author of congenial tafte, and on a fimilar fubje£t, has made ufe of this... | |
 | Helen Maria Williams - 1798
...and arbours, profanely cut into all the mifhapen forms of Gothic fury, and where literally, " Grove nods at grove, each alley has a brother, " And half the platform jufts reflects the other." •. One might forgive a Dutchman for clipping his trees, and fquaring his... | |
 | Helen Maria Williams - 1798
...and arbours, prophanely cut into all the mifhapen forms of Gothic fury, and where literally, " Grove nods at grove, each alley has a brother, " And half the platform juft reflects the other." One might forgive a Dutchman for cliping his trees, and fquaring his walks... | |
 | George Lipscomb - 1799 - 364 oldal
...in 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;... | |
 | Alexander Stephens - 1801
...dipt 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... | |
 | Arthur Murphy - 1801 - 389 oldal
...bounds, And 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,... | |
 | John Britton - 1801
...greatest beauties ; and the formalities of art studiously displayed in every shape of monstrous deformity. The suffering eye inverted nature sees ; Trees cut to statues, statues thick as trees. % POPB. Stowe partook of the general incongruity, and the graceful variety of nature was tortured into... | |
 | Alexander Stephens - 1801
...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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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. 
