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" To build, to plant, whatever you intend, To rear the column, or the arch to bend, To swell the terrace, or to sink the grot; In all, let Nature never be forgot. "
An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope ... - Page 180
by Joseph Warton - 1806
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Esq., to which is Prefixed ..., Volume 1

Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1836 - 332 pages
...worth the ecven : A light which in yourself you must perceive ; Jones and Le Nutre have it not to give. To build, to plant, whatever you intend, To rear the column, or the arch tp bend, To swell the terrace, or to sink the grot, In all, let Nature never be forgot : 50 But treat...
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Portfolio of an Artist

Rembrandt Peale - American literature - 1839 - 276 pages
...habit, which, being impelled by external motives, cannot stop at the middle point. Johnson. TRUE TASTE. To build, to plant, whatever you intend, To rear the...over-dress, nor leave her wholly bare ; Let not each beauty everywhere be spied, Where half the skill is decently to hide. He gains all points who pleasingly compounds,...
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The poetical works of Alexander Pope. Ed. by H.F. Cary, with a biogr. notice ...

Alexander Pope - 1839 - 510 pages
...the seven : A light, which in yourself you must perceive ; Jones and Le Notre have it not to give. his own Dispensary '. Name a new play, and he 's...poet's friend, Nay show'd his faults — but wlieii wou siuk the grot ; In all, let nature never be forgot But treat the goddess like a modest fair. Nor over-dress,...
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The Table Talker: Or, Brief Essays on Society and Literature, Volume 2

Johnstone - English essays - 1840 - 386 pages
...the figure, and the natural air and disposition. But let us have a few lines more of Mr. Pope — " To build, to plant, whatever you intend, To rear the...forgot: But treat the goddess like a modest fair, Nor over dress, nor leave her wholly bare ; Let not each beauty every where be spied, Where half the skill...
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The landscape gardening and landscape architecture of ... Humphry Repton

Humphry Repton - Architecture, Domestic - 1840 - 684 pages
...to furnish hints and patterns, but not to be imitated with exact servility. The poet's rule says, " To build, to plant, whatever you intend, To rear the...sink the grot, In all, let nature never be forgot." From hence it is evident, that the poet no more meant to banish entirely the terrace or grotto of the...
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The Landscape Gardening and Landscape Architecture of the Late Humphrey ...

Humphry Repton - Architecture, Domestic - 1840 - 672 pages
...was to furnish hints and patterns, but not to be imitated with exact servility. The poet's rule says, "To build, to plant, whatever you intend, To rear...sink the grot, In all, let nature never be forgot." From hence it is evident, that the poet no more meant to banish entirely the terrace or grotto of the...
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Domestic Architecture: Containing a History of the Science, and the ...

Richard Brown (architect.) - Architecture, Domestic - 1841 - 618 pages
...excellent books on the art ot landscape-gardening which are highly esteemed. — (RB) PRELIMINARY ESSAY. " To build, to plant, whatever you intend. To rear the...overdress, nor leave her wholly bare ; Let not each beauty everywhere be spied, Where half the skill is decency to hide ; He gains all points who pleasingly confounds,...
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The Saturday Magazine, Volume 18

Periodicals - 1841 - 282 pages
...broken from the formality of fashion, and stolen a peep of nature in his garden at Twickenham: — • To build, to plant, whatever you intend To rear the...over-dress, nor leave her wholly bare ; Let not each beauty everywhere be spied, Where half the skUl is decently to hide ; He gains all points who pleasingly confounds,...
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The Saturday Magazine, Volume 18

Periodicals - 1841 - 272 pages
...broken from the formality of fashion, and stolen a peep of nature in his garden at Twickenham : — To build, to plant, whatever you intend To rear the...forgot, But treat the goddess like a modest fair, Nor over dress, nor leave her wholly bare; Let not ea'-li beauty everywhere be spied, Where half the skill...
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Select Works of the British Poets: In a Chronological Series from Ben Jonson ...

John Aikin - English poetry - 1841 - 840 pages
...worth the seven: A light which in yourself you must perceive ; Jones and Le Nôtre have it not to give. starry reign. There, through the prison of unbounded...Nature from escape, Wide roams the Russian exile. fnir. Nor over-dress, nor leave her wholly bore; Let not each beauty everywhere be spied, Where half...
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