 | Henry Watkins Allen - 1861 - 270 sider
...Borne in ten days from to-day. Yours, sincerely, HWA LETTER NO. XI. VALE OF CHAMOUNI, Aug. 22. 1859. " Mont Blanc Is the monarch of mountains, They crowned...rocks, in a robe of clouds, With a diadem of snow." EDITORS ADVOCATE : From Geneva, I took diligence, and in ten hours arrived at this place, passing through... | |
 | Agnes Catlow, Maria E. Catlow - 1861 - 436 sider
...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...rocks, in a robe of clouds, With a diadem of snow." The real summit does not appear so high, seen from Chamouni, as the Dome de Goute, but presents its... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1861 - 1154 sider
...thy wish avow'd. Voice of the SECOND SpIHIT. Monnt Blanc ¡3 the monarch of mountains ; They cruwn'd him long ago On a throne of rocks, in a robe of clouds, With a diadem of snow. Around his waist are foresta braced, The Avalanche in his hand ; Bat ere it fall, that thundering ball Must ¡muse for my... | |
 | Mrs. John Philip Newman - 1862 - 214 sider
...and thus bade adieu to "Mont Blanc, the monarch of mountains, Who was crowned lonjr ago On a crown of rocks, in a robe of clouds, With a diadem of snow." This robe of clouds hung over all the mountain hights, and far down below, preventing us entirety from... | |
 | Henry Morford - 1864 - 510 sider
...misappreciation for the adventurous genius who quoted, heedless of all that made it inappropriate : " Monnt Blanc is the monarch of mountains : They crowned him...throne of rocks, in a robe of clouds, With a diadem of gnow 1" There was a brief ride remaining, then, till they rolled in over a level road, through thick... | |
 | Thomas Starr King - 1864 - 422 sider
...ravine, called out, as a jubilant apotheosis,— 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. But ere it fall, that thundering ball Must wait for rny command. " Poetry poured down from the distances... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1864 - 596 sider
...in the London lUiutratcd Timen, says : " I found tho following in a lady's album the other day : " ' Mont Blanc is the monarch of mountains, They crowned him long ago ; But who they got to put it on Nobody seems to know. — ALBERT SMITH.' " ' I know that Albert wrote... | |
 | Ellen M. Rogers - 1865 - 416 sider
...Blanc during the whole period of our stay at Chamouni. All we felt, all we said, how we repeated, " Mont Blanc is the monarch of mountains They crowned...rocks, in a robe of clouds, With a diadem of snow," I must not here venture to recall. The only unromantic association, was that excited by the well-known... | |
 | William David Stuart - 1865 - 398 sider
...twenty minutes transfixed by the grandeur of the scene. We could not but exclaim with the poet, — " Mont Blanc is the monarch of mountains They crowned...rocks, in a robe of clouds, With a diadem of snow. "| It would be the height of presumption for me to attempt to describe this scene. Man has not words... | |
 | Acrostics - 1865 - 260 sider
...old oak's shade, Himself as rough, and scarce less old, The Ukraine's hetman, calm and bold.' 1. ' He is the monarch of mountains ; They crowned him long...rocks, in a robe of clouds, With a diadem of snow.' 2. ' The southern Scott, the minstrel who called forth A new creation with his magic line.' 3. ' He... | |
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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. 
