 | 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,...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 wild,... | |
 | 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...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 unveiled... | |
 | 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 " first... | |
 | American periodicals - 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 where... | |
 | George Gilfillan - Authors, English - 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 where... | |
 | George Gilfillan - Authors, English - 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 where... | |
 | William Carus Wilson - Theology - 1851 - 518 pages
...the Mont Blanc, exclaiming— " Mont Blanc is the monarch of mountains, They crown'd him long a;ro, On a throne of rocks, in a robe of clouds, With a liiadem of snow." The view I have described was obtained from a spur of the Jura, which is immediately... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell - Europe - 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...rocks, in a robe of clouds, .With a diadem of snow. The robe of clouds was cast off to-day, and the diadem of snow shone brilliantly ; and as I remembered... | |
 | Samuel Sullivan Cox - Europe - 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...ago, On a throne of rocks, in a robe of clouds, With his diadem of snow." Byron's Manfred, CtUNDAY morning we awoke in Martigny. The chimes near ^-J our... | |
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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. 
