 | Alexander Pope - 1890 - 562 pagine
...FINISHING HIS HOUSE AND GARDENS. AH, friend ! 'tis true — this truth you lovers know — In vain,my structures rise, my gardens grow, In vain fair Thames...WORTLEY casts her eyes. What are the gay parterre, the checkered shade, The morning bower, the evening colonnade, But soft recesses of uneasy minds, To sigh... | |
 | Elegant epistles - 1812 - 318 pagine
...and. never go further than your closet : " Ah friend, 'tis true — this troth you lovers know — In vain my structures rise, my gardens grow ; In vain...Wortley casts her eyes. What are the gay parterre, the cheqner'd shade. The morning hower, the ev'ning colounade. But soft recesses of uneasy minds, To sigh... | |
 | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - 1817 - 308 pagine
...and never go further than your closet: " Ah friend, 'tis true—this truth you lovers know—• " In vain my structures rise, my gardens grow, " In vain...Wortley casts her eyes. " What are the gay parterre, the chequer'd shade, " The morning bower, the ev'ning colonnade, " But soft recesses of uneasy minds, "... | |
 | 1821 - 346 pagine
...and never go further than your closet : " Ah, friend, 'tis true — this truth you lovers know — In vain my structures rise, my gardens grow ; In vain...hanging mountains, and of sloping greens: Joy lives Hot here ; to happier seats it flies, And only dwells where Wortley casts her eyes. What are the gay... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 276 pagine
...Burlington brought me hither. 1742. A FRAGMENT. AH, friend! 'tis true—this truth you lovers know— In vain my structures rise, my gardens grow, In vain...hanging mountains, and of sloping greens: Joy lives not here,—to happier seats it flies, And only dwells where Wortley casts her eyes. What are the gay parterre,... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 694 pagine
...bear the true character of his genius : " AH FRIEND, 'tis true — this truth you lovers know ; In vain my structures rise, my gardens grow ; In vain...WORTLEY casts her eyes. What are the gay parterre, the chequer'd shade, The morning bower, the evening colonnade, But soft recesses of uneasy minds, To sigh... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 692 pagine
...the true character of his genius : " AH FRIEND, 'tis true — this truth you lovers know ; In vaio my structures rise, my gardens grow ; In vain fair...WORTLEY casts her eyes. What are the gay parterre, the chequer'd shade, The morning bower, the evening colonnade, But soft recesses of uneasy minds, To sigh... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 400 pagine
...ON FINISHING HIS HOUSE AND GARDENS. " AH, friend ! 'tis true — this truth you lovers know — In vain my structures rise, my gardens grow, In vain...greens : Joy lives not here, to happier seats it flies, 5 And only dwells where WORTLEY casts her eyes. What are the gay parterre, the chequer'd shade, The... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 398 pagine
...ON FINISHING HIS HOUSE AND GARDENS. " AH, friend ! 'tis true — this truth you lovers know — In vain my structures rise, my gardens grow, In vain...greens : Joy lives not here, to happier seats it flies, 5 And only dwells where WORTLEY casts her eyes. What are the gay parterre, the chequer'd shade, The... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 404 pagine
...scenes Of hanging mountains, and of sloping greens : Joy lives not here, to happier seats it flies, 5 And only dwells where WORTLEY casts her eyes. What are the gay parterre, the chequer'd shade, The morning bower, the ev'ning colonnade, But soft recesses of uneasy minds, To sigh... | |
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tis true — this truth you lovers know — In vain my structures rise, my gardens grow ; In vain fair Thames reflects the double scenes Of hanging mountains, and of sloping greens: Joy lives not here ; to happier seats it flies, And only dwells where... 
