 | Alexander Pope - 1854 - 340 pages
...Then why not Kent as well our treaties draw, Bridgman explain the gospel, Gibbs the law?" 1MGO JONES. To build, to plant, whatever you intend, To rear the column, or the arch to bend, To swell the terrac3, or to sink the grot, In all, let Nature never be forgot, 50 But treat the goddess... | |
 | William Henry Seward - Harvesting machinery - 1854 - 38 pages
...to remember that she works always with simplicity and directness. " 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." The learned counsel tell... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - Floriculture - 1855 - 296 pages
...A light, which in yourself you must perceive ; Jones and Le Notre have it not to give. To build, or 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. But treat the goddess like... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1859 - 330 pages
...And though no science, fairly worth the seven ; A light which in yourself you must perceive ; Jones and Le Notre have it not to give. To build, to plant,...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 ; But treat the goddess... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poetry - 1963 - 884 pages
...And tho' no science, fairly worth the sev'n: A Light, which in yourself you must perceive; 45 Jones and Le Notre have it not to give. To build, to plant,...intend, To rear the Column, or the Arch to bend, To swell the Terras, or to sink the Grot; In all, let Nature never be forgot. 50 But treat the Goddess... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 pages
...garden in Epistle IV of his Moral Essays and we see how the term "Nature" has shifted its meaning: 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. But treat the goddess like... | |
 | Verlyn Klinkenborg, Herbert Cahoon, Pierpont Morgan Library - Antiques & Collectibles - 1981 - 274 pages
...aesthetic that he and Pope advocated: a belief in proportion, in the decorum that nature provides. To build, to plant, whatever you intend, To rear the Column, or the Arch to bend, To swell the Terras, or to sink the Grot; In all, let Nature never be forgot: [Starting with line 23:]... | |
 | Marijke Rudnik-Smalbraak - Literary Criticism - 1983 - 296 pages
...(1731): Something there is more needful than Bxpence, And something previous ev'n to Taste - 'tis Sense: To build, to plant, whatever you intend, To rear the Column, or the Arch to bend, To swell the Terras, or to sink the Grot; In all, let Nature never be forgot. Consult the Genius of the... | |
 | John Dixon Hunt, Peter Willis - Architecture - 1988 - 420 pages
...the Seven. A Light, which in yourself you must perceive; Jones and Le Nôtre have it not to give. 211 To build, to plant, whatever you intend, To rear the Column, or the Arch to bend, To swell the Terras, or to sink the Grot; In all, let Nature never be forgot. Consult the Genius of the... | |
 | H. B. Nisbet, Claude Rawson - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 978 pages
...well-known gardens at Twickenham), Pope advised the architect Lord Burlington in his 1731 Epistle: 'To build, to plant, whatever you intend, / To rear the Column, or the Arch to bend, / To swell the Terras, or to sink the Grot; / In all, 14 Shaftesbury, The Moralists, II, pp. 122, 115, 98.... | |
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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. 
