 | 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... | |
 | James Sherman, Martha Sherman - 1848 - 492 pages
...Byron, I believe, so appropriately writes, — ' 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.' Happily for us, he dispensed with his robes, and permitted us for nearly two days to see his unveiled... | |
 | George Gilfillan - 1850 - 396 pages
...fleets of France and Spain ? Whether is Mont Blanc or Morgarten. the nobler object, though the one be the " Monarch of mountains — They crown'd him long...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 - 1850 - 448 pages
...fleets of France and Spain? Whether is Mont Blanc or Morgarten the nobler object, though the one be the " Monarch of mountains — They crown'd him long...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 - 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... | |
 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell - 1852 - 556 pages
...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 diadem of snow shone brilliantly ; and as I remembered... | |
 | Samuel Sullivan Cox - 1852 - 510 pages
...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 Martigny. The chimes near ^-J our... | |
 | George Gilfillan - 1852 - 346 pages
...fleets of France and Spain? Whether is Mont Blanc or Morgarten the nobler object, though the one be the " Monarch of mountains— They crown'd him long ago, On a throne of rooks, in a robe of cloud?, With a diadem of snow "— and the other only an humble field where the... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1854 - 1126 pages
...ridden ; To thine adjuration bow'd, Mortal — be thy wish avow'd. Voice of the SECOND SPIRIT. Mount Around his waist are forests braced, The Avalanche in his hand ; But ere it fall, that thundering ball... | |
 | Henry Maney - 1854 - 354 pages
...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, and started for Flegere, a lofty point on the west... | |
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They crown'd him long ago On a throne of rocks, in a robe of clouds, With a diadem of snow. 
