| Reuben Post Halleck - 1913 - 678 pages
...vigorous flow of the verse, the love for lonely scenery, and a wealth of figurative expression : — " Mont Blanc is the monarch of mountains, They crowned...throne of rocks, in a robe of clouds With a diadem of snow."1 Scrttered through his works we find rare gems, such as the following — "... when Music arose... | |
| Reuben Post Halleck - 1913 - 672 pages
...vigorous flow of the verse, the love for lonely scenery, and a wealth of figurative expression : — " Mont Blanc is the monarch of mountains, They crowned...throne of rocks, in a robe of clouds With a diadem of snow."' Scattered through his works we find rare gems, such as the following — "... when Music arose... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1913 - 274 pages
...BLANC IS THE MONARCH OF MOUNTAINS From Manfred MONT BLANC is the monarch of mountains; They crown'd him long ago On a throne of rocks, in a robe of clouds, With a diadem of snow. Around his waist are forests braced, 5 The Avalanche in his hand; But ere it fall, that thundering... | |
| Hermann Türck - 1914 - 506 pages
...be thy wish avow'd. Voice of th" Second Spirit. Mont Blanc is the monarch of mountains: They crown'd him long ago On a throne of rocks, in a robe of clouds, With a diadem of snow. Around his waist are forests braced, The Avalanche in his hand; But ere it fall, that thundering... | |
| Andrew Webster Archibald - 1915 - 246 pages
...our hat in the brisk wind that is blowing, while we exclaim as Byron did of a European mountain, ' ' Mont Blanc is the monarch of mountains ; They crowned...throne of rocks, in a robe of clouds, With a diadem of snow. ' ' We catch the enthusiasm of these lines, and we recognize that the great and majestic God... | |
| Nellie Elfa Turner - 1915 - 536 pages
...minutes as are required for the reading of these words. The reader must read into the poem the con13. Mont Blanc is the monarch of mountains; They crowned...throne of rocks, in a robe of clouds, With a diadem of snow. Manfred. Act I. Scene I — LORD BYRON. 14. The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing... | |
| Henry Carr Pearson, Mary Frederika Kirchwey - 1915 - 476 pages
...side of the ablest navigators. 4. Every pine and fir and hemlock Wore ermine too dear for an earl. 5. Mont Blanc is the monarch of mountains ; They crowned him long ago. 6. The new moon hung in the sky, and the sun was low in the west. 7. Pride goeth forth on horseback,... | |
| 1916 - 492 pages
...to the Alps will be just a little bit different from our "war-time vacation." C'est la Guerre! AAA Mont Blanc is the monarch of mountains; They crowned...throne of rocks, in a robe of clouds. With a diadem of snow. — Byron AAA With the Prairie Club in Glacier Park By LAURA H. PETERSON After a two days' journey... | |
| George Benjamin Woods - 1916 - 1604 pages
...thy wish avow'd! Voice of the Second Spirit Mont Blanc is the monarch of mountains ; They crown 'd And like a lonely ghaist I stand And croon1 snow. Around his waist are forests braced, The avalanche in -his hand ; But ere it fall, that thundering... | |
| Earl Granville Leveson Gower Granville - 1917 - 640 pages
...of view that can be imagin'd — that heavenly transparent pink on that Monarch of Mountains crowned long ago " On a throne of rocks In a robe of Clouds," with a diadem of Snow. Miss Faushaw, who is just come from Rome and call'd here, says she left Ly. Westmorland at Rome... | |
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