Seeing Europe With Famous Authors
You might believe yourself, at sight of this Muscovite architecture, in some chimerical Asiatic city-you could easily take the cathedrals for mosques, the belfries for minarets; but the rational façade of the new palace would bring you back to the very heart of the West and of civilization; a sad thing for a romantic savage like myself!\ -from "The Marvelous Treasures of the New Palace," by Theophile Gautier\ From the era from a trip to the Continent was rarer but more deeply appreciated...
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Vol. II, Great Britain And Ireland.
