 | Andrew Webster Archibald - 1921 - 392 pages
...of Chamonix, with the eternal whiteness there soaring away more than 15,000 feet into the blue sky. "Mont Blanc is the monarch of mountains; They crowned him long ago On a throne of rocks, in a robe of clouds, With a diadem of snow." Looming up almost as conspicuously, from the favorable... | |
 | Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards - 1923 - 334 pages
...addressed had enjoyed. Miss Croly bent graciously in reply (avoiding the twigs) and uttered a modest "hem!" Mont Blanc is the monarch of mountains; They crowned him long ago— She recited the familiar lines in a not unmusical singsong, dwelling on the sounding words with genuine... | |
 | Adelia Adams Samuels - 1924 - 270 pages
...for them on the phonograph. They also learned at this time of Mount Blanc and Byron's poem: "Mount Blanc is the Monarch of mountains, They crowned him long ago, On a throne of rocks, in a robe of clouds, With a diadem of snow." Several of the children liked these lines and memorized... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1925 - 424 pages
...something that informs him 't is a moment Whence he may date henceforward and forever ! Italy. ROGERS. Mont Blanc is the monarch of mountains ; They crowned him long ago On a throne of rocks, in a robe of clouds, With a diadem of snow. Manfred, Act i. Sc, I. BVRON. I live not in myself,... | |
 | William Joseph Long - 1925 - 844 pages
...reflection of picturesque scenes. And here and there is a lyric that seems to set itself to music : Mont Blanc is the monarch of mountains ; They crowned him long ago On a throne of rocks, in a robe of clouds, With a diadem of snow. • Cain (1821) is another dramatic poem, reflecting... | |
 | 1879
...valleys between them. Here we find Mont Blanc, the loftiest peak in Europe, of which Byron wrote, — " Mont Blanc is the monarch of mountains ; They crowned him long ago, On a throne of rocks, in a robe of clouds, With a diadem of snow." his troops to Italy in 1800; and where, in their... | |
 | 1896 - 864 pages
...helped to inflame her people, and to arouse them to strike the blow that made her free. " Mont Шанс is the monarch of mountains; They crowned him long ago On a throne of rocks, in a robe of clouds, \Vith a diadem of snow." Ali Pasha, the Turkish governor of Albania, received... | |
 | Richard Dauenhauer, Philip Binham - 1978 - 396 pages
...prose] of Greece, as everywhere in English poetry [and prose] it is given free course. Byron [writes]: —the monarch of mountains. They crowned him long ago On a throne of rocks, in a robe of clouds, With a diadem of snow. When Aeschylus has the same thing in mind, he will... | |
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Mont Blanc is the monarch of mountains: They crowned him long ago, On a throne of rocks, in a robe of clouds, With a diadem of snow. 
