 | Elegant epistles - 1812 - 318 pages
...house at Twickenham. He has made a sub terranean grotto, which he has furnished with looking-glasses, and they tell me it has a very good effect. I here...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... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 346 pages
...house at Twickenham. He has made a subterranean grotto, which he has furnished with looking-glasses, and they tell me it has a very good effect. I here...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... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - English literature - 1824 - 694 pages
...house at Twickenham. He has made a subterranean grotto, which he has furnished with looking-glasses ; and they tell me, it has a very good effect. I here...send you some verses addressed to Mr. Gay, who wrote to him a congratulatory letter on the finishing his house. 1 stifled them here; and / beg they may... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 692 pages
...house at Twickenham. He has made a subterranean grotto, which he has furnished with looking-glasses ; and they tell me, it has a very good effect. I here...send you some verses addressed to Mr. Gay, who wrote to him a congratulatory letter on the finishing his house. 1 stifled them here; and / beg they may... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1831 - 384 pages
...house at Twickenham. He has made a subterranean grotto, which he has furnished with looking-glasses, and they tell me, it has a very good effect. I here...at Paris, and never go further than your closet." The 1 " My father had a traditionary recollection in his mind, that the celebrated quarrel or coolness... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1835 - 350 pages
...house at Twickenham : he has made a subterranean grotto, which he Has furnished with looking-glasses ; and they tell me it has a very good effect. I here...they may die the same death at Paris, and never go farther than your closet.' The verses were these : — Ah, friend, 'tis true — this truth you lovers... | |
 | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - Authors, English - 1837 - 410 pages
...house at Twickenham. He has made a subterranean grotto, which he has furnished with looking glasses, and they tell me it has a very good effect. I here...never go further than your closet : " Ah, friend, 'tis true — this truth you lovers know — In vain ray structures rise, my gardens grow, In vain fair... | |
 | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - Authors, English - 1837 - 446 pages
...house at Twickenham. He has made a subterranean grotto, which he has furnished with looking-glasses, and they tell me it has a very good effect. I here...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 Thames... | |
 | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - Authors, English - 1837 - 442 pages
...house at Twickenham. He has made a subterranean grotto, which he has furnished with looking-glasses, and they tell me it has a very good effect. I here...death at Paris, and never go further than your closet: e> " Ah, friend, 'tis true—this truth you lovers know— In vain my structures rise, my gardens grow,... | |
 | Louisa Stuart Costello - Great Britain - 1844 - 416 pages
...house at Twickenham. He has made a subterranean grotto, which he has furnished with looking glasses, and they tell me it has a very good effect. I here...further than your closet : — ' Ah ! friend, 'tis true — this truth you lovers know — In vain my structures rise, my gardens grow, In vain fair Thames... | |
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I see sometimes Mr. Congreve, and very seldom Mr. Pope, who continues to embellish his house at Twickenham. He has made a subterranean grotto, which he has furnished with looking-glasses, and they tell me it has a very good effect. I here send you some... 
