Ludwig Hevesi über die Schönheit des Kärntner Rings, um 1892:

They are certainly very beautiful, those ten lengths of the path on the Kärntner Ring. Especially in spring, in the hour before the opera, when a hazy golden sky lies to the west above the domes of the Court Museums, the gilding of the Heinrichhof lapping the long façade like living fire, when purple Bengal flames shoot from the rows of windows opposite the Imperial Gardens and the little Pegasus on the crown of the Opera House looks distinctly as if he is about to soar up into the Olympian effulgence. That is the aristocratic hour of the ‘Kärntnerring’.