 | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - 1892 - Liczba stron: 342
...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...; to happier seats it flies, And only dwells where W casts her eyes. " ' What is the gay parterre, the chequerM shade, The morning bower, the ev'ning... | |
 | 1892 - Liczba stron: 780
...repetition. Pope praised her wit and poetry, admired her beauty, and flattered her vanity. "In vain my structures rise, my gardens grow, In vain fair...hanging mountains and of sloping greens ; Joy lives not there ; to happier seats it flies, And only dwells where Wortley casts her eyes." Soon this extravagant... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1899 - Liczba stron: 534
...ON FINISHING HIS HOUSB AND GARDENS. AH, friend! 'tis true — this truth you lovers know — In vain my structures rise, my gardens grow, In vain fair...WORTLEY casts her eyes. What are the gay parterre, the checquer'd .shade, The morning bower, the evening colonnade, But soft recesses of uneasy minds, To... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Sir Adolphus William Ward - 1893 - Liczba stron: 588
...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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1893 - Liczba stron: 566
...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... | |
 | Samuel Reynolds Hole - 1895 - Liczba stron: 494
...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 - Liczba stron: 730
...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 - Liczba stron: 730
...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 - Liczba stron: 654
...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 - Liczba stron: 1170
...(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... | |
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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... 
