 | Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 oldal
...behold the wall ! No pleasing intricacies intervene, No artful wildness to perplex the scene : Grove ired. Thus Atticus, and Trumbull thus retired. Ye sacred Nine ! that all my soul possess, W Buffering eye inverted nature sees, Trees cut to statues, statues thick as tree* ; 130 With here a... | |
 | Jacob Green - 1831 - 278 oldal
...and shears, into many unnatural shapes: in several places — The suffering eye inverted nature BROS, Trees cut to statues — statues thick as trees; With here a fountain never to be played, And there a summer-house that knows no shade. Pursuing a winding path through the groves of... | |
 | John Galt - 1831 - 336 oldal
...poet — No pleasing intricacies intervene, No artful wildness to perplex the scene ; Grove nods to grove, each alley has a brother, And half the platform just reflects the other — for Thomson's forte was not dramatic ; even his elegant power of allusion, which renders " The... | |
 | John Galt - 1831 - 332 oldal
...poet — No pleasing intricacies intervene, No artful wildness to perplex the scene; Grove nods to grove, each alley has a brother, And half the platform just reflects the other — for Thomson's forte was not dramatic ; even his elegant power of allusion, which renders " The... | |
 | James Hall - 1833 - 298 oldal
...garden, where, " 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 neighborhood being secluded, and distant from the sea-board, fashions, coming with a tardy step... | |
 | Yasmine Gooneratne - 1976 - 164 oldal
...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 of weary monotony Pope wishes... | |
 | Denys Thompson - 1978 - 252 oldal
...country-house projects, and the distortion of Nature by the artificial treatment of trees and landscape: The suffering eye inverted Nature sees, Trees cut to statues, statues thick as trees. . . In the prophetic Dunciad he warns his readers against the coming of a reign of Dullness, with what... | |
 | Bruce Redford - 1986 - 272 oldal
...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, with the Dowager Viscountess... | |
 | Charles W. Moore, William John Mitchell, William Turnbull - 1988 - 286 oldal
...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 predictably dull results.... | |
 | Meyer Howard Abrams - 1989 - 452 oldal
...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 a place for everything but every... | |
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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. 
