 | Alexander Pope - 1890 - 562 Seiten
...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...here, to happier seats it flies, And only dwells where WORTLEY casts her eyes. What are the gay parterre, the checkered shade, The morning bower, the evening... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Lisle Bowles - 1806 - 550 Seiten
...fupprefs. The lines were written to Gay, on the finifhing his houfe, and are exquifitely tender : \ " Ah, friend, 'tis true — this truth you lovers know — " In vain my ftruftures rife, my gardens grow ; " In vain fair Thames refledts the double fcenes, " Of hanging mountains,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1806 - 558 Seiten
...fupprefs. The lines were written to Gay, on the finjthing his houfe, and are €xquifitely tender : " Ah, friend, 'tis true — this truth you lovers know— «' In vain my ftruftures rife, my gardens grow ; « In vain fair Thames refleds the double fcenes, •« Of hanging... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Lisle Bowles - 1806 - 480 Seiten
...,m,f f&r f< -s, !•'••~ i. TO MR. GAY, CONCRATUL \TING MIM ON FINISHING HIS HOUSE AND GARDENS. " AH, friend ! 'tis true — this truth you lovers know — In vain my ftruclures rife, my gardens grow, In vain fair Thames rcfle&s the double fcenes Of hanging mountains,... | |
 | Elegant epistles - 1812 - 318 Seiten
...same death at Paris ; and. never go further than your closet : " Ah friend, 'tis true — this troth you lovers know — In vain my structures rise, my...; to happier seats it flies, And only dwells where Wortley casts her eyes. What are the gay parterre, the cheqner'd shade. The morning hower, the ev'ning... | |
 | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - 1817 - 308 Seiten
...may die the same death at Paris, and never go further than your closet: " Ah friend, 'tis true—this truth you lovers know—• " In vain my structures...to happier seats it flies, " And only dwells where Wortley casts her eyes. " What are the gay parterre, the chequer'd shade, " The morning bower, the... | |
 | 1821 - 346 Seiten
...them here, and I beg they may die the same death at Paris, and never go further than your closet : " Ah, friend, 'tis true — this truth you lovers know...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... | |
 | 1822 - 284 Seiten
...Sloane, Let me alone: Burlington brought me hither. 1742. . A FRAGMENT. AH, friend ! 'tis true—this truth you lovers know— In vain my structures rise,...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 - 694 Seiten
...on account of her absence, in the following lines, which bear the true character of his genius : " AH FRIEND, 'tis true — this truth you lovers know...here, to happier seats it flies, And only dwells where WORTLEY casts her eyes. What are the gay parterre, the chequer'd shade, The morning bower, the evening... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 398 Seiten
...died in 1740. Bowles. TO MR. GAY, WHO HAD CONGRATULATED MR. POPE ON FINISHING HIS HOUSE AND GARDENS. " AH, friend ! 'tis true — this truth you lovers know...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... | |
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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 where... 
