| Nicholas Murray - 1854 - 300 pages
...the monarch of mountains; They crown'd him long ago, ** I Our journey. Making echoes. Boys beaten. On a throne of rocks, in a robe of clouds, With a diadem of snow." What^a pity Coleridge did not date hi& immortal hymn at this bridge, instead of in the vale... | |
| Nicholas Murray - 1854 - 316 pages
...is the monarch of mountains ; They crown'd him long ago, I Oar journey. Making echoes. Boys beaten. On a throne of rocks, in a robe of clouds, With a diadem of snow." What a pity Coleridge did not date his immortal hymn at this bridge, instead of in the vale... | |
| Albert Smith - 1854 - 572 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 tiien, her memory appearing to have deserted her, she added: — " But who they got to... | |
| Mary Catherine Jackson - 1856 - 322 pages
...passed, until two or three years after I first became an inmate of my guardian's house. CHAPTER II. " Mont Blanc is the monarch of mountains They crowned...throne of rocks, in a robe of clouds, With a diadem of snow." MANFRED. SWEET—beautiful Geneva ! like a dream of heaven is the first view of its enchanting... | |
| William Sidney Gibson - 1856 - 96 pages
...the monarch of them all, has an absolute height of fifteen thousand seven hundred and fifty feet : They crowned him long ago, On a throne of rocks in a robe of clouds, With a diadem of snow. The central ridge of the Alpine chain is jagged with peaks, pyramids, and " needles " of bare... | |
| Octavia Walton Le Vert - 1857 - 356 pages
...exulting voice, " There is Mont Blanc, and I was the first to see it ! " There indeed was Mont Blanc ! " Mont Blanc is the monarch of mountains, They crowned him long ago, On a throne of rocks, in robes of clouds, With a diadem of snow." There was a wonderful clearness in the atmosphere, rendering... | |
| George Fletcher (of Birmingham.) - 1857 - 270 pages
...answers the call of the magician in this manner : " Mont Rlanc 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 Stillman Hillard - 1858 - 348 pages
...faults to hide. If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget them all. Mont Blanc is the monarch of mountains ; They crowned him long ago, On a throne of rocks, in a robe of cloud, With a diadem of snow. O, it is excellent To have a giant's strength ; but it is tyrannous To... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1859 - 614 pages
...thy wish avow'd ! Voice of the 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 - 1859 - 914 pages
...thy wish avow'd ! Voice of the SECOND SPIRIT. Mont Blanc is the monarch of mountains ; They crown'd ron" George Gordon Byron Byron( snow. Anjund his waist are forests braced, The Avalanche In his hand ; Bal ere it fall, that thundering... | |
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