 | Alexander Pope - 1890 - 562 strani
...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 strani
...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...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 strani
...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...parterre, the chequer'd shade, " The morning bower, the ev'ning colonnade, " But soft recesses of uneasy minds, " To sigh unheard in, to the passing winds... | |
 | 1821 - 346 strani
...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...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 strani
...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 Wortley...morning bower, the evening colonnade, But soft recesses for uneasy minds, To sigh unheard in, to the passing winds! So the struck deer, in some sequester'd... | |
 | 1822 - 284 strani
...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 fair...hanging mountains, and of sloping greens: Joy lives not here,—to happier seats it flies, A nd only dwells where Wortley casts her eyes. What are the gay... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 404 strani
...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...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 - 400 strani
...and of sloping greens: Joy lives not here, to happier seats it flies, 5 And only dwells where WORTLET 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 unheard in, to the passing winds ? 10... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1835 - 318 strani
...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 fair...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, Alexander Dyce - 1835 - 342 strani
...these touching lines ; " Ah, Friend, 'tis true — this truth you lovers know ; In vain my itructures rise, my gardens grow ; In vain fair Thames reflects the double scenes Of hano'ing mountains, and of sloping greens ; Joy lives not here, to happier seats it flies, And only... | |
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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... 
