 | Rosina Maria Zornlin - 1840 - 516 pàgines
...regions, to that of temperate Europe. The highest summit is Mont Blanc, l5,78l feet above the sea. Mont Blanc is the monarch of mountains, They crowned him long ago, Oa a throne of rocks, in a robe of clo uls, "Wiih a (liadem of snow. Our course first lies along the... | |
 | Albert Smith - 1851 - 326 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Albert Smith - 1854 - 572 pàgines
...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 tiien, her memory appearing to have deserted her, she added: — " But who they got to... | |
 | George Fletcher (of Birmingham.) - 1857 - 270 pàgines
...creative Shelley, who gives a character like that given to the hair of the Consumptive, which he likens to "grass growing amid tombs." As examples of nervous...answers the call of the magician in this manner : " Mont Rlanc is the monarch of mountains : They crown'd him long ago On a throne of rocks, in a robe of clouds,... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1864 - 596 pàgines
...in the London lUiutratcd Timen, says : " I found tho following in a lady's album the other day : " ' Mont Blanc is the monarch of mountains, They crowned him long ago ; But who they got to put it on Nobody seems to know. — ALBERT SMITH.' " ' I know that Albert wrote... | |
 | Howard Payson Arnold - 1868 - 514 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Alexander Ronald Grant - 1870 - 160 pàgines
...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... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1878 - 270 pàgines
...CROSSING THE TSCHINGEL GLACIER, 199 IX. THE ALLELEIN-HORN, 212 X. THE SCHRECKHORN, 227 ALPINE ADVENTURE. "Mont Blanc is the monarch of mountains, They crowned him long ago." By RON. SHE Alps form the most important European mountain-system, and contain the loftiest peaks.... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1881 - 502 pàgines
...not look into, but one of our party discovered in it a stanza which ran, I believe, nearly thus — Mont Blanc is the monarch of mountains, They crowned him long ago, Enthroned in ice, with robes of clouds, And diadem of 'snow — which, however far from perfection,... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1881 - 504 pàgines
...not look into, but one of our party discovered in it a stanza which ran, I believe, nearly thus — Mont Blanc is the monarch of mountains, They crowned him long ago, Enthroned in ice, with robes of clouds, And diadem of snow — which, however far from perfection,... | |
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Mont Blanc is the monarch of mountains — They crowned him long ago ; But who they got to put it on Nobody seems to know. 
