Excerpt from St. Mark's Rest: The History of Venice, Written for the Help of the Few Travellers Who Still
Well, they are famous, first, in memorial of something which is better worth remembering than the fire of London, or the achievements of the great Napoleon. And they are famous, or used to be, among artists, because they are beauti ful columns nay, as far as we old artists know, the most beautiful columns at present extant and erect in the conveniently visitable world.
Each of these causes of their fame I will try in some dim degree to set before you.
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