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Excerpt from The Civil Architecture of Vitruvius: Comprising Those Books of the Author Which Relate to the Public and Private Edifices of the Ancients
It seems impossible that we should contemplate any remains of Grecian taste and science, of whatever description they may be, without, at the same time, adverting to other monuments of other arts, and connecting them in the mind with those which are immediately before us. In vain would we believe that we admire them as if they stood insulated and alone, While association is softening every defect, and enhancing every beauty, - while memory is retracing the most affecting scenes, - or while fancy is grouping the most interesting objects. We can scarcely deny, then, that the pleasure which is derived from surveying the ancient models of Grecian architecture is heightened by ideas connected with learning, with science, and with art; accompanied, as they still must be, by all the'nameless charms which imagination combines with the history of the Greeks, and which it throws over all their productions. It is probable, nevertheless, that their buildings possess certain qualities which affect us independently of all these associations, ' and which, even without them, fail not to produce'sentiments of admiration, and feelings of delight.
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