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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.
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Source: Manfred (act I, sc. 1, l. 62)
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Whose sunbright summit mingles with the sky.
Author: Thomas Campbell
Source: Pleasures of Hope (pt. I, l. 4)
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'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view,
And robes the mountain in its azure hue.
Author: Thomas Campbell
Source: Pleasures of Hope (pt. I, l. 7)
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Mountains interposed
Make enemies of nations, who had else
Like kindred drops been mingled into one.
Author: William Cowper
Source: Task (bk. II, l. 17)
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To make a mountain of a mole-hill.
Author: Sir Henry Ellis
Source: Original Letters--Second Series (p. 312)
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Over the hills, and over the main,
To Flanders, Portugal, or Spain;
The Queen commands, and we'll obey,
Over the hills and far away.
Author: George Farquhar
Source: The Recruiting Officer (act II, sc. 2)
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Over the hills and far away.
Author: John Gay
Source: The Beggar's Opera (act I, sc. 1)
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Round its breast the rolling clouds are spread,
Eternal sunshine settles on its head.
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
Source: The Deserted Village (l. 192)
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What is the voice of strange command
Calling you still, as friend calls friend,
With love that cannot brook delay,
To rise and follow the ways that wend
Over the hills and far away.
Author: William Ernest Henley
Source: Rhymes and Rhythms (1)
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Well, we knocked the bastard off!
Author: Edmund Hillary
Source: on being first to climb Mt. Everest in 1953, "Nothing Venture, Nothing Win" (1975) ch. 10
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Heav'd on Olympus tottering Ossa stood;
On Ossa, Pelion nods with all his wood.
Author: Homer ("Smyrns of Chios")
Source: The Odyssey (bk. XI, l. 387), (Pope's translation)
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What will this boaster produce worthy of this mouthing? The
mountains are in labor; a ridiculous mouse will be born.
[Lat., Quid dignum tanto feret hic promissor hiatu?
Parturiunt montes; nascetur ridiculus mus.]
Author: Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
Source: Ars Poetica (138)
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To pile Pelion upon Olympus.
[Lat., Pelion imposuisse Olympo.]
Author: Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
Source: Odes (bk. III, 4, 52)
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Daily with souls that cringe and plot,
We Sinais climb and know it not.
Author: James Russell Lowell
Source: The Vision of Sir Launfal (prelude to pt. I)
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Because it's there.
Author: George Leigh Mallory
Source: on being asked why we wanted to climb Mt. Everest, in "New York Times", Mar. 18, 1923
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Going to the mountains is going home.
Author: George Leigh Mallory
Source: on being asked why we wanted to climb Mt. Everest, in "New York Times", Mar. 18, 1923
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Over the hills and o'er the main,
To Flanders, Portugal and Spain,
Queen Anne commands and we'll obey,
Over the hills and far away.
Author: Old Song
Source: The Merry Companion (song 173, p. 149)
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Then the Omnipotent Father with his thunder made Olympus tremble,
and from Ossa hurled Pelion.
Author: Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)
Source: Metamorphoses (I)
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Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise.
Author: Alexander Pope
Source: Essay on Criticism (pt. II, l. 32)
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I would have you call to mind the strength of the ancient giants,
that undertook to lay the high mountain Pelion on the top of
Ossa, and set among those the shady Olympus.
Author: Francois Rabelais
Source: Works (bk. IV, ch. XXXVIII)
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Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.
Author: John Ruskin
Source: True and Beautiful--Nature--Mountains (p. 91)
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That were to blow at fire in hope to quench it;
For who digs hills because they do aspire
Throws down one mountain to cast up a higher.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Pericles Prince of Tyre (Dionyza at I, iv)
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The mountain was in labour, and Jove was afraid, but it brought
forth a mouse.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Pericles Prince of Tyre (Dionyza at I, iv)
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And o'er the hills and far away,
Beyond their utmost purple rim,
Beyond the night, across the day,
Thro' all the world she followed him.
Author: Lord Alfred Tennyson
Source: Daydream--The Departure (IV)
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To pile Ossa upon Pelion.
[Lat., Imponere Pelio Ossam.]
Author: Virgil or Vergil (Publius Virgilius Maro Vergil)
Source: Georgics (I, 281)
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