...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...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 loveliness!...

...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 and almost...

...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...

...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...

...be more striking to the eye of the beholder. "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." While at the Flegere we saw through a glass two adventurous American travellers ascending Mont Blanc....

...thy wish avow'd ! Voice of the SECOND SPIRIT. Mont Blanc is the monarch of mountains ; They crown'd ron" George Gordon Byron Byron( Anjund his waist are forests braced, The Avalanche In his hand ; Bal ere it fall, that thundering ball...

...ravine, called out, as a jubilant apotheosis, — Mont Blanc is the monarch of mountains ; Ti'ey crown'd him long ago On a throne of rocks, in a robe of clouds, With a diadsm of snow. But ere it fall, that thundering baU Must wait for my command. " Poetry poured down...

...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 elouds, With a diadem of snow. Around his waist are forests braced, The Avalanche in his hand : But...

...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 enow. Around his waist are forests braced; The avalanche in his hand; But ere it fall, that thundering...

...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 clonds, With a diadem of snow. But ere it fall, that thundering ball Must wait fur my command. " Poetry...