| George Macintosh - 1847 - 238 pages
...their names in a book which lies there, and in which Lord Byron left the following lines : — ' Mount Blanc is the monarch of mountains, They crowned him...throne of rocks, in a robe of clouds, With a diadem of snow. Around his waste are forests bound, The avalanche in his hand, But ere it fall, the thundering... | |
| 1847 - 490 pages
...shadowy robes of cloud and twilight, reclines on his ample conch. He also is a king. " Mont Blanc, the Monarch of Mountains, They crowned him long ago,...throne of rocks, in a robe of clouds, With a diadem of snow." Not yet is the chamois abroad, cropping the scanty herbage of his elevated pasture. The sterile... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1847 - 356 pages
...thy wish avow'd T Voice of tfte 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... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1847 - 880 pages
...thy wish avow'd ! Voice of the SECOND SPIRIT. Mont Blanc is the monarch of mountains ; They crown'd e accursing breath Of calumny and scorn. Her. F. And what redress Did yo snow. Around his waist are forests braced, The Avalanche in his hand ; ,•' But ere it fall, that... | |
| James Sherman, Martha Sherman - 1848 - 492 pages
...majestic as from this whole road, and justified what Byron, I believe, so appropriately writes, — ' Mont Blanc is the monarch of mountains, They crowned...throne of rocks, in a robe of clouds, With a diadem of snow.' Happily for us, he dispensed with his robes, and permitted us for nearly two days to see his... | |
| 1848 - 636 pages
...Blanc or Morgarten the nobler object? though the one be 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" — and the other only a humble field where the Swiss baffled their Austrian oppressors, and... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1848 - 602 pages
...Blanc or Morgarten the nobler object? though the one be the " Monarch of mountains— They crowued him long ago, On a throne of rocks in a robe of clouds, With a diadem of snow." and the other only a humble field where the Swiss baffled their Austrian oppressors, and where... | |
| George Gilfillan - 1850 - 396 pages
...Blanc or Morgarten. the nobler object, though the one be 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 " — and the other only a humble field where the Swiss baffled their Austrian oppressors, and... | |
| George Gilfillan - 1850 - 448 pages
...Blanc or Morgarten the nobler object, though the one be 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 " — and the other only a humble field where the Swiss baffled their Austrian oppressors, and... | |
| Albert Smith - 1851 - 326 pages
...forward with joy to their happy home." .Mrs. Hamper appeared to have been taken poetical, for she wrote : "Mont Blanc is the monarch of mountains. They crowned him long ago : — " and then, her memory appearing to have deserted her, she added : — " But who they got to... | |
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