Some observations made in travelling through France, Italy, &cin the years MDCCXX, MDCCXXI, and MDCCXXII . hat of Trajan, is ftupendous. Andtho the pleafure of feeing what remains of them be verygreat, the grief to hear what is loft is not lefs. They fay it was one of S. Auguftines wifhes to have feenRome in its glory; and tis a with, however fruitlefs, that I be-lieve none can forbear entertaining, that fees Rome now,—in amuch further remove from its ancient glory, than it was in thatfathers time. Near the church of Santa Croce, are fome remains of atemple of Venus and Cupid, but very ruinous
Some observations made in travelling through France, Italy, &cin the years MDCCXX, MDCCXXI, and MDCCXXII . hat of Trajan, is ftupendous. Andtho the pleafure of feeing what remains of them be verygreat, the grief to hear what is loft is not lefs. They fay it was one of S. Auguftines wifhes to have feenRome in its glory; and tis a with, however fruitlefs, that I be-lieve none can forbear entertaining, that fees Rome now,—in amuch further remove from its ancient glory, than it was in thatfathers time. Near the church of Santa Croce, are fome remains of atemple of Venus and Cupid, but very ruinous. In a vineyard not far from this, is a beautiful ruin of the tem-ple of Minerva Medica, a decagon. The door-place takes upone of the fides; the oppofite fide is tumbled down. Therewas a nich in it when ftanding, as there is now in every one ofthe eight other fides which remain, befides that in which thedoor is. And thus, the number of niches being nine, it isfuppofed that they were filled with the ftatues of the nine each of the niches is a window. There is now a fountain in .Pa a. a,$8,. (/. (audi / fit/,/it &: •/ Z-m/s/s &f f/ltm/w ///&//ra.
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