Addison, Joseph: Remarks on several parts of Italy: &c. in the years 1701, 1702, 1703 (London: Tonson, 1718)

PREFACE.
tare to resre/b my Memory among
the Classic Authors, and to make
sitch Collections out os them as I
might asterwards have Occasion
sor. I muft confess it was not one
of the leas Entertainments that I
met with in Travelling, to examine
these feveral TIefcriptions, as it
were, upon the Spot, and to compare
the Natural Face of the Country
with the Landskips that the 'Poets
have given us os it. However,
to avoid the Consusion that might
arise from a Multitude os Quotati-
ons, I have only cited such Verfes
as have given us fome Image os the
Place, or that have something else
besides the bare Name of it to re-
commend them.

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