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In designing a garden, wrote Lord Kames (Henry Home),
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Elements of Criticism, a work of which Dr. Johnson remarked:
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Sir, this book is a pretty essay and deserves to be held in some estimation, though much of it is chimerical. The idea that sagacity affords no aid in tracing a labyrinth is certainly chimerical, as we shall see, but persons who incline to austerity in art will have little hesitation in agreeing with the other remarks of Lord Kames, even where, further on, he says:
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The gardens of Versailles, executed with boundless expense by the best artists of the age, are a lasting monument of a taste the most depraved.