 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...  Chambers's papers for the people - עמוד 18מאת Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1851תצוגה מלאה - מידע על ספר זה
 | Alexander Pope - 1893 - 566 דפים
...ON FINISHING HIS HOUSE AND GARDENS. H, friend ! 'tis true — this truth you lovers know— In vain my structures rise, my gardens grow; In vain fair...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, Sir Adolphus William Ward - 1893 - 588 דפים
...FINISHING HIS HOUSE AND GARDENS. AH, friend ! 'tis true — this truth you lovers know — XI. In vain my structures rise, my gardens grow; In vain fair...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... | |
 | Samuel Reynolds Hole - 1895 - 494 דפים
...admired. And though the glorious Hudson transcends in grandeur, and, so far as size is concerned, " In vain fair Thames reflects the double scenes Of hanging mountains and of sloping greens," yet has she charms and associations specially her own. I love them both ; but this I am bound to say,... | |
 | Edward Boucher James - 1896 - 730 דפים
...quoted were these touching lines : ' Ah, friend, 'tis true — this truth you lovers know ; In vain my structures rise, my gardens grow : In vain fair...scenes Of hanging mountains and of sloping greens, Joy lies not here, to happier seats it flies, And only dwells where Wonley casts her eyes.' See also the... | |
 | Edward Boucher James - 1896 - 730 דפים
...these touching lines : ' Ah, friend, 'tis true—this truth you lovers know; In vain my stractures rise, my gardens grow : In vain fair Thames reflects...scenes Of hanging mountains and of sloping greens, Joy lies not here, to happier seats it flies, And only dwells where Wortley casts her eyes.' See also the... | |
 | 1897 - 654 דפים
...editions. The lines are these : — Ah, friend ! 'tis true— this truth you lovers know — In vain my structures rise, my gardens grow ; In vain fair...scenes Of hanging mountains and of sloping greens. (This was, I suppose, the effect of his little magic mirrors inserted here and there and everywhere.)... | |
 | 1897 - 1170 דפים
...(This was, I suppose, the effect of his little magic mirrors inserted here and there and everywhere.) Joy lives not here : to happier seats it flies, And only dwells where Wortley casts her eyes.1 From 1727, when the correspondence with Lady Mar comes to an end, to 1738, we have hardly any... | |
 | Sidney George Owen, John Swinnerton Phillimore - 1898 - 98 דפים
...murther me. T. CAMPION. EPISTLE TO GAY. Ah, friend ! 'tis true (this truth you lovers know) in vain my structures rise, my gardens grow ; in vain fair...what are the gay parterre, the chequered shade, the noon-tide bower, the evening colonnade, but soft recesses of uneasy minds to sigh unheard in to the... | |
 | Susan Hale - 1898 - 336 דפים
...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 fair...flies And only dwells where Wortley casts her eyes. The intercourse between Pope and Lady Mary was intercourse marked by sentiment, or sentimentality,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1903 - 704 דפים
...AND GARDENS Written early in 1722. AH, friend ! 't is true — this truth you lovers know — In vain my structures rise, my gardens grow, In vain fair...happier seats it flies, And only dwells where Wortley easts her eyes. What are the gay Parterre, the ehequer'd Shade, The morning Bower, the ev'ning Colonnade,... | |
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