 The garden in front of the temple was laid out in accordance with Garrick 's friend William Hogarth 's theory of the Line of Beauty . An S @-@ shaped path ran between flowering shrubs in accordance with the theory 's preference for serpentine shapes . Walpole donated a grove of Italian cypresses to plant in the garden . It was widely admired in its time and its idyllic prospect so moved Samuel Johnson that he told Garrick : " Ah , David , it is the leaving of such places that makes a deathbed so terrible . " 
