Familiar Quotations / A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to / Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature

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So we 'll go.

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.

Manfred. Act i. Sc. 1.

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But we, who name ourselves its sovereigns, we,

Half dust, half deity, alike unfit

To sink or soar.