...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...

...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...

...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...

...forward with joy to their happy home." .Mrs. Hamper appeared to have been taken poetical, for she wrote : "Mont Blanc is the monarch of mountains. They crowned him long ago : — " and then, her memory appearing to have deserted her, she added : — " But who they got to...

...to understand ; and it was the first thing which came into my mind today when I saw Mont Blanc : — Mont Blanc Is the monarch of mountains, They crowned...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...

...out of which even human curiosity failed to find its way ? XXIII. tjit €rtt JInir ta 3$nnt Slunt" Mont Blanc is the monarch of mountains, They crowned...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...

...truth of the poet's glorious description, — " Mont Blanc is Ihe monarch of mountains ; They crown 'd him long ago, On a throne of rocks, in a robe of clouds, With a diadem of snow." In returning from the Jardin it is not necessary to descend by the Egralets ; a steep path leads down...

...failed to find its way ? XXIII. tju ®tit Mm tn "Mont Blanc is the monarch of mountains, They cr owned him long ago, On a throne of rocks, in a robe of clouds, With his diadem of snow." Byron's Manfred. OTJNDAY morning we awoke in Martigny. The chimes near ^.J our...

...sentiment in the foregoing lines recalls the well-known song in Byron's " Manfred," beginning, — " Mont Blanc is the monarch of mountains ; They crowned...rocks, in a robe of clouds, With a diadem of snow," &c. After mentioning the storms and the winds of the season, the following lines occur, which show...

...the bright stars encircled its brow like a brilliant tiara. Well hath the child of poetry sung — " Mont Blanc is the monarch of mountains ; They crowned...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...