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JOHN RUSKIN.
The charm which Venice still possesses, and which for the last fifty / years has rendered it the favourite haunt of all the painters of / picturesque subject, is owing to the effect of the palaces belonging / to the period we have now to examine, mingled with those of the / Renaissance.