 | Elegant epistles - 1812 - 318 pagine
...house at Twickenham. He has made a sub terranean grotto, which he has furnished with looking-glasses, and they tell me it has a very good effect. I here...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 fair... | |
 | 1821 - 346 pagine
...house at Twickenham. He has made a subterranean grotto, which he has furnished with looking-glasses, and they tell me it has a very good effect. I here...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 fair... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 694 pagine
...house at Twickenham. He has made a subterranean grotto, which he has furnished with looking-glasses ; and they tell me, it has a very good effect. I here...send you some verses addressed to Mr. Gay, who wrote to him a congratulatory letter on the finishing his house. 1 stifled them here; and / beg they may... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 692 pagine
...house at Twickenham. He has made a subterranean grotto, which he has furnished with looking-glasses ; and they tell me, it has a very good effect. I here...send you some verses addressed to Mr. Gay, who wrote to him a congratulatory letter on the finishing his house. 1 stifled them here; and / beg they may... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1831 - 384 pagine
...house at Twickenham. He has made a subterranean grotto, which he has furnished with looking-glasses, and they tell me, it has a very good effect. I here...at Paris, and never go further than your closet." The 1 " My father had a traditionary recollection in his mind, that the celebrated quarrel or coolness... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1835 - 350 pagine
...house at Twickenham : he has made a subterranean grotto, which he Has furnished with looking-glasses ; and they tell me it has a very good effect. I here...they may die the same death at Paris, and never go farther than your closet.' The verses were these : — Ah, friend, 'tis true — this truth you lovers... | |
 | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - 1837 - 446 pagine
...house at Twickenham. He has made a subterranean grotto, which he has furnished with looking-glasses, and they tell me it has a very good effect. I here...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 fair Thames... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 546 pagine
...house at Twickenham. He has made a subterranean grotto, which he has furnished with looking-glasses ; and they tell me, it has a very good effect. I here...send you some verses addressed to Mr. Gay, who wrote to him a congratulatory letter on the finishing his house. / stifled them here ; and / beg they may... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1851 - 650 pagine
...addressed by Pope to Gay in her praise, adding, with some consciousness, ' I stifled them here, and beg they may die the same death at Paris, and never go farther than your closet.' The lines are very beautiful ; and as they are conclusive as to the poor... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1853 - 384 pagine
...house at Twickenham. He has made a subterranean grotto, which he has furnished with looking-glasses, and they tell me it has a very good effect. I here send you some verses addressed to Mr. Gay, who wrpte him a congratulatory letter on the finishing his house. I stifled them here; and I beg they may... | |
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I see sometimes Mr. Congreve, and very seldom Mr. Pope, who continues to embellish his house at Twickenham. He has made a subterranean grotto, which he has furnished with looking-glasses, and they tell me it has a very good effect. I here send you some... 
