The history of Hampton Court Palace in Tudor times . yrinth, and Espaliers sohigh, that they effectually take off all that part of the oldbuilding, which would have been offensive to the Labyrinth and Wilderness is not only well designed,and completely finished, but is perfectly well kept, and theespaliers filled exactly, at bottom to the very ground, andare led up to proportioned heights on the top ; so thatnothing of that kind can be more beautiful.^ This favourable verdict of Defoes as to the plantation ofthe Wilderness was not, however, endorsed by his editors :for in the editio
The history of Hampton Court Palace in Tudor times . yrinth, and Espaliers sohigh, that they effectually take off all that part of the oldbuilding, which would have been offensive to the Labyrinth and Wilderness is not only well designed,and completely finished, but is perfectly well kept, and theespaliers filled exactly, at bottom to the very ground, andare led up to proportioned heights on the top ; so thatnothing of that kind can be more beautiful.^ This favourable verdict of Defoes as to the plantation ofthe Wilderness was not, however, endorsed by his editors :for in the edition of the Tour through Great Britain, ^published in 1742, instead of these commendatory remarks,they substituted the following criticism, with which we are ^ Treasury Papers^ vol. Ixxxiv., No. 109.^ Tour through Great Britain.^ Vol. i., p. 239. 1699] The Wilderness laid out. 75 more disposed to agree : As the whole contrivance of thePlantations is in regular strait walks, bounded on each sideby tall clipped Hedges, which divide the whole ground into. Plan of the Wilderness. A. —The Broad Walk. D.— Troy Town. B. —The Lion Gates. E.—The Grove or —The Maze. F.—The Moat. G.—Tennis Court House. angular Quarters, to every person of taste it must be veryfar from affording any pleasure, since nothing can be moredisagreeable than to be immured between hedges, so as to 76 History of Hampton Court Palace, [1699 have the Eye confined to a straight walk, and the Beauty ofthe Trees growing in the quarters, intirely secluded from theEye. And at the same time as you are walking in this un-meaning plantation, you are denied the benefit of shade, bybeing confined to these regular walks, where it would bedeemed an unpardonable fault, to suffer the neighbouringtrees to diffuse their branches over these shorn hedges ; sothat, in the midst of a wood, a person may faint for shade ina sultry day, the air being excluded from these walks bythe taller trees in the quarters ; and pen
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