Hampton Court ... Illustrated with forty-three drawings by Herbert ...

UNDER GEORGE I 133
Privy Garden. Under Queen Anne the " great Diana
fountain," whichhad stood there, was moved to Bushey
Park, and the fine Lion gates were setup at the end of
the Wilderness. With this, and her crusade against
Dutch box, Queen Anne seems to have been satisfied.
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The gardens as Queen Anne left them, and as
they were when the fat lady ("mere cataract of
animal oils," Carlyle calls her) and the lean lady of
George I. walked up and down what is now called
Frog Walk (some say it was Frow Walk), must
have been,Ithink,much like those which Thomson
describes in "Spring," published in 1726. Every
one is supposed to have read " The Seasons," butI
doubt if the quotation is familiar. It certainly expresses
the feeling of the period when formality was
beginning to yield to a somewhat artificial Natureworship.
'-' At length the finished garden to the view
Its vistas open anditsalleys green.
Snatched through the verdant maze, the hurried eye
Distracted wanders; now the bowerywalk
Of covert close, where scarce a speck ofday
Falls on the lengthened gloom,protracted sweeps *
Nowmeets the bendingsky: the river now,
Dimplingalong, the breezy-ruffledlake,
The forest darkening round, the glittering spire,
The etherealmountain, and the distant main.