. Mazes and labyrinths; a general account of their history and developments. COCD1>- ££ o U h G .5? and Statue are designd at A. six different Entranceswhereof there is but one that leads to the centre and thatis attended with some difficulties and a great many stops. He might have added, ... like unto my own literarystyle. A labyrinth of a most fantastic character is said tohave occupied a large area in the palace garden of thePrince of Anhalt, in Germany. It was allegorical andwas intended to typify the course of human life. It was. Fig. 119.—Maze Design by S. Switzer (1742). composed not
. Mazes and labyrinths; a general account of their history and developments. COCD1>- ££ o U h G .5? and Statue are designd at A. six different Entranceswhereof there is but one that leads to the centre and thatis attended with some difficulties and a great many stops. He might have added, ... like unto my own literarystyle. A labyrinth of a most fantastic character is said tohave occupied a large area in the palace garden of thePrince of Anhalt, in Germany. It was allegorical andwas intended to typify the course of human life. It was. Fig. 119.—Maze Design by S. Switzer (1742). composed not only of hedges, but of rocks and trees,streams and caverns, and tortuous deeply cut paths,which were for the most part covered in, with very scantyillumination. At every other turn the visitor was pulledup by some puzzling or terrifying allegory, or somedidactic inscription after the manner of those whichadorn the rocks at Tilly Whim, on the Dorset way of compensation he was refreshed here and thereby the sight of a choice example of the sculptors art, ora flowery dell, or some verdurous presentation of thearchitects idea of Elysium. As in the case of Versailles,expense seems to have been no obstacle. *33 At Records Office is preserved in SurveyNo. 72 a rather pathetic document headed A Surveyof the Manor of Wymbledon alias Wimbleton, with theRights, Members and Appurtenances thereof, lying andbeing in the Countie of Surrey, late Parcell of the Pos-sessions of Henrietta Maria, the Relict and late Queeneof Charles
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