A/A'C/'/ i . 





il ih.in (f his 



\\ the 



restoration of C ! the 



diffusion <>f architecture to his 



skill in lan.lsv.ip,-." 



Il cannot he said that 

 teritv has altogrther v.mc 

 tiniH-.l thi- exalted view wlvch 

 Horace Walp<>le expressed of 

 the ai hievements of Kent. In 

 striving to Ju away with the 

 Id formality, the landscape 

 gardener had introduced a 

 lormahty of his own. chiefly 

 ernihle in the curious em. 

 bdlishments which he found it 

 necessary to add in order to 

 give features to replace those 

 he had sometimes wantonly 

 destroyed. Kent's greatest 

 Us were at Ksher and 

 Claremont, at Kuusham in 

 Oxfordshire, at Lord Burling- 

 ton's villa at Chiswick. and in 

 the additions which he made 

 to the plans of Bridgm.ui and 

 Vanbrugh at Lord Cobham's 

 place at Stowe. The gardens 

 tStoue, famous at the tune, 

 awoketheenthusiasm of many. 

 Thus did [Jr. Cotton poeti 



"It |ni//lr< mm h the nine*' bruin* 

 \Vherr \\i\rn Mood <! M>n 

 Mr place it in Arabia'* plains 

 >"tnr my it u no more. 



" Rut Cubham can thrnc talc* confute. 



As all the curioun know 

 Tor he ha* prov'.l IH-VOIK! dispute 

 That l*ara<lir i Stowr " 





THE <-Ll> GATEWAY AT FRANKS. 



"I -.frjr Lift." 



Kent's popiil.ii itt- brought 

 him many followers :inl imi 

 t ! I'hilip Soutlu 



at Wobtirn Harm in Sui 

 had an embellished ; 



lime, in win h the 1 

 ilv-ll was part of hi* gjrd.-n 



CnnCc pllo i Sheli^tiMtr 



a great exponent \ the i.md 

 '. and had a 

 notable example : it .it his 

 1 < \ and 



the Hon. Charles Hamilton, 

 destroying nothing, like some- 

 Ian. 1 irden.-rs. created 

 II Hill in Surrev. As 

 :i -..li.l. who wrote 

 in 1768. Pains Hill has th,- 

 mark of creative gei.ius. .mJ 

 it is one of the most lemark- 

 able examples of the lan.l- 

 s, ape style. But the great, st 



of all the followers ! K 



was Lancelot Brown. I'nlike 



others of liis school, Brown 



.lid m>t attempt to form hi% 



upon the work* "I 



Cl.uiJe or I'oussm, but went 



direct ! Nature herself, and 



there would have been little 



1C t" find fault with what 



he did, if, in doing it, he had not swept away >o many 

 Characteristic f.atures of the gardens of former times. . 

 Cobham, in whose kitchen garden he had worked, recom- 

 mended him to the huke of (iraiton at \\'akefiel.l L-nlge, 

 in Northamptonshire, where he directed the formation ! a 

 large lake. Blenheim w us Ins favourite triumph, and :n 

 sp.aking of the water-.-!!, ct there, he evultingly exclaimed 





THE TEkkACE WALK Al LOSbLEV HAkK. 



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