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136.	2.	Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire appeared between 1776 and 1788.
137.	1.	See the remarks on Gothic architecture in a paper in the World, No. 26 (1753).Chalmers, British Essayists, xxii, 143, 144.
	2.	It is hardly necessary to point out that the term "Gothic" is very loosely used in the eighteenth century and applied to "every ancient building which is not in the Grecian mode." See citation from Langley's Ancient Architecture Restored (1742), in the Oxford Dictionary, s.v. "Gothic" was a common synonym for "barbarous."
	3.	Les Voyageurs en France, p. 43.
	4.	Ibid., p. 62.
	5.	Diary, i, 130.
	6.	Ibid., i, 179. Cf. his remarks on "St. Stephen's" (St. Étienne) in Paris, ibid., i, 265, which he thinks beautiful, "though Gothic."
	7.	Wyndham, Travels, i, 398.
	8.	Remarks on Several Parts of Europe, i, 48.
	9.	Travels through Italy, p. 39.
	10.	Ibid., p. 108.
	11.	Voyage en Italie, viii, 423.
138.	1.	Page 147.
	2.	New Voyage to Italy, ii2, 239. Addison had no feeling for, or understanding of, Gothic architecture. See his remarks on the cathedral of Siena, Remarks on Italy, pp. 313, 314.
	3.	Earl of Cork and Orrery, Letters from Italy, p. 5.
	4.	Grand Tour, iv, 195.
	5.	Ibid., iv, 180.
	6.	Ibid., iv, 270. Some of Nugent's estimates of other French Gothic buildings are found in his Grand Tour, iv: Paris (Sainte-Chapelle), p. 55; Sens, pp. 167, 168; Metz, p. 205; Strassburg, p. 207; Troyes, p. 213; Bourges, p. 257 (this he pronounces "one of the finest Gothic structures in France," but he makes no mention of the superb old glass or of the great carved doorways); Le Mans, p. 271; Rouen, p. 282; Caen, p. 285; Rheims, p. 297, etc.
139.	1.	View of Society and Manners in France, etc., p. 177.
	2.	Vol. i, p. 20.
	3.	Vol. i, p. 15.
	4.	Vol. i, 101.
	5.	Vol. ii, 109.
CHAPTER VIII
141.	1.	Sharp, Letters from Italy, p. 69.
	2.	Jesse, George Selwyn and his Contemporaries, ii, 320.
142.	1.	Cf. Chapter II.
143.	1.	Evelyn returned by land from Naples to Rome for fear of Turkish pirates. Diary, i, 169.
	2.	Berchtold, An Essay to Direct and Extend the Inquiries of Patriotic Travellers, i, 77.

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