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. The Works of the English Poets: Pope - Página 132por Samuel Johnson - 1779Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Alexander Pope - 1859 - 330 páginas
...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... | |
| Evenings - 1860 - 386 páginas
...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... | |
| John Timbs - 1861 - 338 páginas
...another, and at exact distances," the style which Pope so happily satirizes in one of his Epistles : — Grove nods at grove, each alley has a brother, And half the platform Just reflects the other. It seems that the first use to which the principle of the kaleidoscope was... | |
| Yasmine Gooneratne - 1976 - 164 páginas
...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 - 1986 - 272 páginas
...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 - 1988 - 286 páginas
...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 - 1989 - 452 páginas
...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 - 1990 - 330 páginas
...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 - 1993 - 512 páginas
...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... | |
| Matt Cartmill - 1996 - 352 páginas
...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.9 In the early eighteenth century, the British aristocracy began to share the... | |
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