 | Samuel Sullivan Cox - 1852 - 510 pages
...out of which even human curiosity failed to find its way ? XXIII. tjit €rtt JInir ta 3$nnt Slunt" Mont Blanc is the monarch of mountains, They crowned him long ago, On a throne of rocks, in a robe of clouds, With his diadem of snow." Byron's Manfred, CtUNDAY morning we awoke in... | |
 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell - 1852 - 556 pages
...to understand ; and it was the first thing which came into my mind today when I saw Mont Blanc : — 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. The robe of clouds was cast off to-day, and the... | |
 | James Montgomery - 1854 - 366 pages
...sentiment in the foregoing lines recalls the well-known song in Byron's " Manfred," beginning, — " 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," &c. After mentioning the storms and the winds of... | |
 | Henry Maney - 1854 - 354 pages
...the bright stars encircled its brow like a brilliant tiara. Well hath the child of poetry sung — " 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." On the following morning, we had mules ordered,... | |
 | Samuel Sullivan Cox - 1854 - 460 pages
...valleys, into and out of which even human curiosity failed to find its way ? tju XXIII. fa 11 Mont Blano is the monarch of mountains, They crowned him long ago, On a throne of rocks, in a robe of clonds, With his diadem of snow." Jlyron't Manfred. O UNDAY morning we awoke in... | |
 | 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 him long ago On a throne of rocks, in a robe of clouds, With a diadem of snow." MANFRED. SWEET—beautiful Geneva ! like a dream... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Agnes Catlow, Maria E. Catlow - 1861 - 436 pages
...the world, Byron's lines seemed the most true and appropriate description that could be written — " 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." The real summit does not appear so high, seen from... | |
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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. 
