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were only his great lines : the rest he diversified by 

 wilderness and with loose groves of oak, though still 

 within surrounding hedges." 



Here we have almost exactly what Bacon 

 advises in 1597. On revieht toujours a ses 

 premieres amours ! 



Let us hear something more of Bridgman 

 from Walpole : 



"I have observed in the garden at Gubbins, in 

 Hertfordshire, many detached thoughts, that strongly 

 indicate the dawn of modern taste. As his reforma- 

 tion gained footing, he ventured farther, and in the 

 royal garden at Richmond dared to introduce culti- 

 vated fields, and even morsels of a forest appearance, 

 by the sides of those endless and tiresome walks, that 

 stretched out of one into another without intermission. 

 But this was not till other innovators had broke loose 

 too from rigid symmetry. 



" But the capital stroke, the leading step to all that 

 has followed, was [I believe the first thought was 

 Bridgman's] the destruction of walls for boundaries, 

 and the invention of fosses an attempt then deemed 

 so astonishing that the common people called them 

 Ha ! Ha ! to express their surprise at finding a sudden 

 and unperceived check to their walks." 



Walpole's etymology, or explanation, is 



