“For wheresoe'er I turn my ravished eyes,
Gay gilded scenes and shining prospects rise,
Poetic fields encompass me around,
And still I seem to tread on classic ground.”

—  Joseph Addison

A Letter from Italy, to the Right Honourable Charles, Lord Halifax. 1701.

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