| Howard Payson Arnold - 1868 - 514 sider
...makes "Mrs. Hamper," on her visit to the same spot, attach the following lines to her autograph : — " Mont Blanc is the monarch of mountains; They crowned him long ago; But who they got to put it on We don't exactly know." Die " AS" story suggests to me another example... | |
| Fergus Ferguson - 1869 - 240 sider
...mountains), sings a song which is appropriate to our position, in front of the snow-crowned peak — • " 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. Around his waist are forests braced, The avalanche... | |
| Alexander Ronald Grant - 1870 - 160 sider
...high up in the air. There are some lines written about Moat Blanc which will make you remember it : " Mont Blanc is the monarch of mountains, They crowned him long ago. On his throne of rocks, in his robe of clouds, With his diadem of snow." All the bottom of the mountain... | |
| Ascott Robert Hope Moncrieff - 1871 - 362 sider
...above the level of the sea, or three miles in perpendicular height. So that, as the poet says — ' 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. ' Walking one evening through the valley, we had... | |
| Thomas Nicholas - 1872 - 526 sider
...instead of" Mont Blanc " in the poet's verse), that — •s. ¿ fe rf и z H за H J s " Snowdon 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." Under the shelter of the craggy and barren Arddu,... | |
| Agnes Elizabeth Claflin - 1873 - 404 sider
...For which the palace of the present hour Must yield its pomp, and wait till Ages are its dower." " 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 ; Around his waist are forests braced, The avalanche... | |
| Edward Thomas Stevens - 1873 - 236 sider
...consist of ice. The highest point of the Alps is Mont Blanc, 15,730 feet above the level of the sea. ' 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 Apennines extend through the middle of Italy... | |
| Dawn - 1874 - 340 sider
...On a star-beam I have ridden : To thine adjuration bowed, Mortal, be thy wish avowed. SECOND SPIRIT. 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. SONGS OF THE SPIRITS IN "MANFRED." Around his waist... | |
| Alexander Ronald Grant - 1874 - 162 sider
...up in F 3 the air. There are some lines written" about Moat Blanc which will make you remember it: " Mont Blanc is the monarch of mountains, They crowned him long ago. On a throne of rocks, in a robe of clouda, With a diadem" of snow." All the bottom of the mountain is rock. Then comes... | |
| 1874 - 794 sider
...yonder peak is the highest point in Europe — the great white mountain himself — " Mont Blanc, tho monarch of mountains, They crowned him long ago ; On a throne of rocks, in a robe of clouds, With a diadem, of snow." " les the glaciers cluster, numbering in all,... | |
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