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. Byron - Page 119by John Nichol - 1894 - 216 pagesFull view - About this book
| William Coombs Dana - 1845 - 408 pages
...from « Manfred" seemed the most exquisite of all descriptive poetry— perfect painting to the eye. " Mont Blanc is the monarch of mountains ; They crowned...rocks, in a robe of clouds, With a diadem of snow." A half hour of rest and refreshment at the cottage, coming in aid of the exhilarating influences of... | |
| Jacob K. Neff - 1845 - 642 pages
...destined fort, in the western wilderness. 1753.] See, where the Alleghany mountain invades the sky, " On a throne of rocks, in a robe of clouds, With a diadem of snow." The winter blasts drive back the life-blood upon the shuddering hearts of men ; the clouds roll in... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1846 - 848 pages
...thy wish avow'd ! Voice of the SECOND SPIRIT. Mont- Blanc is the monarch of mountains, They crown'd cloudr. With a diadem of snow. Around his waist are forests braced, The avalanche in bis hand ; But... | |
| George Macintosh - 1847 - 238 pages
...their names in a book which lies there, and in which Lord Byron left the following lines : — ' Mount Blanc is the monarch of mountains, They crowned him...rocks, in a robe of clouds, With a diadem of snow. Around his waste are forests bound, The avalanche in his hand, But ere it fall, the thundering ball... | |
| 1847 - 490 pages
...shadowy robes of cloud and twilight, reclines on his ample conch. He also is a king. " Mont Blanc, the Monarch of Mountains, They crowned him long ago,...rocks, in a robe of clouds, With a diadem of snow." Not yet is the chamois abroad, cropping the scanty herbage of his elevated pasture. The sterile wild,... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1847 - 880 pages
...thy wish avow'd ! Voice of the SECOND SPIRIT. Mont Blanc is the monarch of mountains ; They crown'd e accursing breath Of calumny and scorn. Her. F. And what redress Did you expe Around his waist are forests braced, The Avalanche in his hand ; ,•' But ere it fall, that thundering... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1847 - 356 pages
...thy wish avow'd T Voice of tfte SECOND SPIRIT. 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. Around his waist are forests braced, The Avalanche in his hand ; But ere it fall, that thundering ball... | |
| James Sherman, Martha Sherman - 1848 - 492 pages
...majestic as from this whole road, and justified what Byron, I believe, so appropriately writes, — ' Mont Blanc is the monarch of mountains, They crowned...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... | |
| 1848 - 636 pages
...Blanc or Morgarten the nobler object? though the one be 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" — and the other only a humble field where the Swiss baffled their Austrian oppressors, and where... | |
| 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... | |
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