...year, pays tribute to Burlington's own taste and sense, but predicts the vulgarization of his manner. You show us, Rome was glorious, not profuse. And pompous...Use. Yet shall (my Lord) your just, your noble rules, I-'ill half the land with Imitating Fools; Who random drawings from your sheets shall take, And of...

...Alexander Pope (who, just up river from Chiswick at Twickenham, was one of his neighbours). Pope praised: You show us, Rome was glorious, not profuse, And pompous buildings once were things of Use. Following Burlington, Whig grandees planted their estates with solid, stately seats. Lesser gentlemen...

...aristocrat-architects, Lord Burlington, and noted the degree to which others were taking up the fashion: "Yet shall, my Lord, your just, your noble rules/ Fill half the land with Imitating-Fools." Wisely or foolishly, gentlemen were now expected to involve themselves in matters...

...Burlington: the emulation of Palladio and, behind him, of ancient Rome becomes piecemeal and absurd: You show us, Rome was glorious, not profuse, And pompous...Use. Yet shall (my Lord) your just, your noble rules Who random drawings from your sheets shall take, And of one beauty many blunders make; Load some vain...

...Pope assigns new meanings to old ones. Consider, for example, the poem's most famous pseudoaphorism: "You show us, Rome was glorious, not profuse, / And pompous buildings once were things of Use" (23-24). Although this couplet appears early in the poem, it interrupts the passage listing sensationalized...