...modest /air, . A'or over dress, nor leare her wholly bare; Let not each beauty everywhere be spied, Where half the skill is decently to hide; He gains all points who pleasantly confounds, Surprises, varies, and conceals the bounds. " And again, hear the same judicious...

...a modest fair, Nor over dress, nor leave her wholly bare. Let not each beauty everywhere be spied, Where half the skill is decently to hide. He gains all points who pleasingly compounds, Surprises, varies, and conceals the bounds. Consult the genius of the plan in all : That...

...To swell the Terrace, or to sink the Grot; In all, let Nature never be forgot. But treat the Goddess like a modest fair, Nor over-dress, nor leave her wholly bare ; Let not each Beauty ev'rywhere be spy'd, Where half the Skill is decently to hide. He gains all Points, who pleasingly...

...swell the Terrace, or to sink the Grot; In all, let Nature never be forgot, so But treat the Goddess like a modest fair, Nor over-dress, nor leave her...hide. He gains all points, who pleasingly confounds, 53 Surprises, varies, and conceals the Bounds. Consult the Genius of the Place in all ; That tells...

...swell the Terrace, or to sink the Grot j In all, let Nature never be forgot. But treat the Goddess like a modest Fair, Nor overdress, nor leave her wholly...hide. He gains all points, who pleasingly confounds. Surprizes, varies, and conceals the Bounds. Consult the Genius of the Place in all ; That tells the...

...swell the Terras, or to sink the Grot; In all, let Nature never be forgot. 50 But treat the Goddess like a modest fair, Nor over-dress, nor leave her...hide. He gains all points, who pleasingly confounds, 55 Surprizes, varies, and conceals the Bounds. Consult the Genius of the Place in all ; That tells...

...is on closer examination an invitation to arrange and rearrange nature according to a point of view: Let not each beauty ev'ry where be spy'd, Where half the skill is decently to hide. For what was being done, by this new class, with new capital, new equipment and new skills to hire,...

...To swell the terrace, or to sink the grot; In all, let Nature never be forgot. But treat the goddess like a modest fair, Nor over-dress, nor leave her wholly bare; Let not each beauty everywhere be spied, Where half the skill is decently to hide. He gains all points who pleasingly confounds,...

...To swell the Terras, or to sink the Grot; In all, let Nature never be forgot. But treat the Goddess like a modest fair, Nor over-dress, nor leave her...be spy'd, Where half the skill is decently to hide. (47-54) This passage bares and dresses the body of the pseudomythical female figure in the same breath....

...picturesque landscape was deemed aesthetically more successful than its "unimproved" ancestor. Pope writes: Let not each beauty ev'ry where be spy'd, Where half the skill is decently to hide. He gain all points, who pleasingly confounds, Surprizes, varies, and conceals the Bounds.9 But a detailed...