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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. "
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Page 288
1817
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The Great Exhibition: With Continental Sketches, Practical and Humorous

Howard Payson Arnold - 1868 - 514 pages
...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...
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Wanderings in France and Switzerland

Fergus Ferguson - 1869 - 240 pages
...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...
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Reading books, adapted to the requirements of the Revised code, ed ..., Volume 3

Alexander Ronald Grant - 1870 - 160 pages
...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...
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Horace Hazelwood; Or, Little Things: And Other Tales

Ascott Robert Hope Moncrieff - 1871 - 362 pages
...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...
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Annals and Antiquities of the Counties and County Families of ..., Volume 2

Thomas Nicholas - 1872 - 526 pages
...instead of" Mont Blanc " in the poet's verse), that — •s. ¿ fe rf و z H هـ 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,...
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From Shore to Shore: A Journey of Nineteen Years

Agnes Elizabeth Claflin - 1873 - 404 pages
...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...
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The New code, 1871. The useful knowledge reading books, ed. by E.T. Stevens ...

Edward Thomas Stevens - 1873 - 236 pages
...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...
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Dawn to daylight; or, Gleams from the poets of twelve centuries

Dawn - 1874 - 340 pages
...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...
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The school managers' series of reading books. Standard 1-6. Intr ..., Volume 2

Alexander Ronald Grant - 1874 - 162 pages
...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...
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The baptist Magazine

1874 - 794 pages
...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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