Verona by Thomas Nast, in Charles Dickens's Pictures from Italy, Sketches, and American Notes, eighth chapter, "By Verona, Mantua, and Milan, across The Pass of the Simplon into Switzerland," 41. Wood-engraving, ¾ by 3 ¾ inches wide (2.2 cm high by 9.5 cm wide), vignetted.
Passage Illustrated: Impressions of Verona
Pleasant Verona! With its beautiful old palaces, and charming country in the distance, seen from terrace walks, and stately, balustraded galleries. With its Roman gates, still spanning the fair street, and casting, on the sunlight of to-day, the shade of fifteen hundred years ago. With its marble-fitted churches, lofty towers, rich architecture, and quaint old quiet thoroughfares, where shouts of Montagues and Capulets once resounded,
And made Verona’s ancient citizens Cast by their grave, beseeming ornaments, To wield old partizans.
With its fast-rushing river, picturesque old bridge, great castle, waving cypresses, and prospect so delightful, and so cheerful! Pleasant Verona! [Chapter 8, "By Verona, Mantua, and Milan, across The Pass of the Simplon into Switzerland," 41]
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Bibliography
Dickens, Charles. Chapter 8, "By Verona, Mantua, and Milan, across The Pass of the Simplon into Switzerland." Pictures from Italy, Sketches by Boz, and American Notes. Illustrated by A. B. Frost and Thomas Nast. The Household Edition. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1877. 41-47.
_______. Pictures from Italy and American Notes. Illustrated by A. B. Frost and Gordon Thomson. London: Chapman and Hall, 1880. 1-381.
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