The illusion is perfect, the eye rests with pain on the passing citizens in their modern costumes you look for black velvets and gold chains, white feathers and red stockings. In the course of a short stroll, you may pass by a Roman amphitheatre, still used, then the castle of some petty prince of the Middle Ages, and while you are contrasting the sublime elevation of antiquity with the heterogeneous palace of a Scaliger your eyes light on a gate of Oriental appearance and fantastic ornament. Every step excites emotion and gives rise to unaffected reflection.
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Verona is full of pictures which have never been painted.Letter to Isaac Disraeli (2 September 1826), quoted in William Flavelle Monypenny and George Earle Buckle, The Life of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield.n speaking of Italy, romance has omitted for once to exaggerate.16 August 1824), quoted in William Flavelle Monypenny and George Earle Buckle, The Life of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield. The nose is exquisitely formed, and the flesh tints seem immortal. The eyes, beaming with human beauty, are nevertheless bright with the effulgence of celestial light, and fixed upon no particular object.
You could not mistake the head for an Apollo or an Adonis. he auburn locks seem only prevented from growing over the countenance by the moiety of the star which forms the glory: everything which can even be conceived as necessary to the formation of a face of perfect beauty, but nothing earthly in the appearance.
Morales well entitled to his surname of Divino. Head of Christ by Morales, exactly as in the description in the pseudo letter of the Roman Proconsul.Diary entry while in Ghent (1 August 1824), quoted in William Flavelle Monypenny and George Earle Buckle, The Life of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield.The host raised, and I flung myself on the ground. Clouds of incense and one of Mozart's sublimest masses by an orchestra before which San Carlo might grow pale.
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