The history of Hampton Court Palace in Tudor times . View tf the Great Parterre in the Great Fountain Garden, as altered about theyear 1736. (From an engraving by J. Rocque.) The alterations were carried out in deference to the tasteadverted to by Pope, in the Epistle to the Earl of Bur-lington :— Tired of the scene parterres and fountains finds at last, he better likes a field. But Pope was a critic difficult to please ; and though hehimself contributed somewhat to bringing the new style into 262 History of Hampton Court Palace. L^TS^ vogue, he was as severe in his condemnation of th
The history of Hampton Court Palace in Tudor times . View tf the Great Parterre in the Great Fountain Garden, as altered about theyear 1736. (From an engraving by J. Rocque.) The alterations were carried out in deference to the tasteadverted to by Pope, in the Epistle to the Earl of Bur-lington :— Tired of the scene parterres and fountains finds at last, he better likes a field. But Pope was a critic difficult to please ; and though hehimself contributed somewhat to bringing the new style into 262 History of Hampton Court Palace. L^TS^ vogue, he was as severe in his condemnation of these plaingrass plats as of the figured beds, which they , in another couplet, he censures him who— One boundless green or flourished carpet views,With all the mournful family of yews. And, in a note of his own to this last line, animadverts onthese pyramids of dark green, continually repeated, not. Great Fountain Garden, after the Alterations in George Time. (From anengraving by Highmore and Tinney.) unlike a funeral procession. How apposite was this cri-ticism to the gardens at Hampton Court, will at once strikethe reader on looking at the annexed print, taken from oneof Highmore and Tinney s plates, published soon after thealterations were carried out, about the year 1736. Again, in the same satire, Pope seems to point atthese gardens, where statues of the fighting and the dying 1736] A New Style in Gardening, 263 gladiator were placed, on stone pedestals, in the centres ofthe lawns:— Here Amphitrite sails through myrtle bowers,There gladiators fight, or die in flowers. It is fortunate, however, that the alterations were of thissuperficial nature, and that no attempt was made to followevery varying caprice of gardening fashion, which has everbeen to destroy, in one generation, what the previous onewith incessant toil and hands innumerable scarce performed. CHAPTER XVIII
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