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Excerpt from Venice Under the Yoke of France and Austria, Vol. 1 of 2: With Memoirs of the Courts, Governments, and People of Italy; Presenting a Faithful Picture of Her Present Condition, and Including Original Anecdotes of the Buonaparte Family
All filthy dowlas, Madam! Why, those are the very titles adopted by the swarm of tourists, who tell nothing, because their method of travelling supplies them with nothing to be told, and in whose volumes there is not any thing to be found, but such general accounts as leave no distinct idea behind them. What a severe castigation has Dr. Johnson given this class of scribblers! He that enters a town at night, ' says the Doctor, and surveys it in the morning, and then hastens away to another place, and guesses at the manners of the inhabitants, by the entertainment which his inn afforded him, may please himself for a time with a hasty change of scenes, and a confused remembrance of palaces and churches: he may gratify his eye with a variety of landscapes, and regale his palate with a succession of vintages; but, let him becontented to please himself; without endea vouring to disturb others. He that reads these books must consider his labour as its own reward; for he will find nothing on which attention can fix, or which memory can retain. Authoress.
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