 The passing through the gloom from the grotto to the opening day, the retiring and again assembling shades, the dusky groves, the larger lawn, and the solemnity of the termination at the cypresses that lead up to his mother's tomb, are managed with exquisite...  The Antiquary - Page 111edited by - 1890Full view - About this book
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 524 pages
...Painting, vol. iv. of art and taste, to impress so much variety and scenery on a spot of five acres. The passing through the gloom from the grotto to the...opening day, the retiring and again assembling shades, the dusky groves, the larger lawn, and the solemnity of the termination at the cypresses that lead... | |
 | 1849 - 466 pages
...of the Guardian is known to have been written by Pope.—D. * Built over, in 1827—D. five acres. The passing through the gloom from the grotto to the...opening day, the retiring and again assembling shades, the dusky groves, the larger lawn, and the solemnity of the termination at the cypresses that lead... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - 1855 - 296 pages
...dare to love their country, and be poor. Horace Walpole, speaking of the poet's garden, tells us that "the passing through the gloom from the grotto to...opening day, the retiring and again assembling shades, the dusky groves, the larger lawn, and the solemnity at the cypresses that led up to his mother's tomb,... | |
 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1858 - 636 pages
...it was a singular effort of art and taste to compress so much variety and scenery into five acres I The passing through the gloom from the grotto to the opening day, and again assembling shades, the dusky groves, the larger lawn, and the damp. Refmod taste went to... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1861 - 632 pages
...it was a singular effort of art and taste to compress so much variety and scenery into five acres I The passing through the gloom from the grotto to the opening day, and again assembling shades, the dusky groves, the larger lawn, and the damp. Refinod taste went to... | |
 | James Thorne - 1876 - 430 pages
...a singular effort of art and taste to impress so much variety and scenery on a spot of tive acres. The passing through the gloom from the Grotto to the...opening day, the retiring and again assembling shades, the dusky groves, the larger lawn, and the solemnity of the termination of the cypresses that led up... | |
 | James Thorne - 1876 - 430 pages
...a singular effort of art and taste to impress so much variety and scenery on a spot of tive acres. The passing through the gloom from the Grotto to the...opening day, the retiring and again assembling shades, the duaky groves, the larger lawn, and the solemnity of the termination of the cypresses that led up... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1886 - 396 pages
...a singular effort of art and taste to impress so much variety and scenery on a spot of five acres. The passing through the gloom from the grotto to the...opening day, the retiring and again assembling shades, the dusky groves, the larger lawn, and the solemnity of the termination of the cypresses that led up... | |
 | Edward Livermore Burlingame, Robert Bridges, Alfred Sheppard Dashiell, Harlan Logan - 1888 - 824 pages
...tolerant of other people's whimsies, seems to have been favorably impressed with both grot and garden. " The passing through the gloom from the Grotto to the opening day," he says, " the retiring and again assembling shades, the dusky groves, the larger lawn, and the solemnity... | |
 | Edward Walford, George Latimer Apperson - 1890 - 324 pages
...a brother, And half the garden just reflects the other. By the way, there was a little of affected modesty in Pope's remark when he said that of all...the dusky groves, the larger lawn, and the solemnity of the termination at the cypresses that led to his mother's tomb, were managed with exquisite judgment;... | |
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