"Montez" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... l'eclair votre Verbe aussi vole: Montez a sa lueur, courez a sa parole, Attendez sans effroi l'heure lente a venir, Vous, enfants de celui qui, l'annoncant d'avance, Du sommet d'une croix vit briller l'esperance Sur l'horizon ...
— French Lyrics • Arthur Graves Canfield
... the year 1848 took the form of a great national demonstration in favour of political unity and a representative form of government. In Bavaria, the king who had wasted his time and money upon an Irish lady who posed as a Spanish dancer—(she was called Lola Montez and lies buried in New York's Potter's Field)—was driven away by the enraged students of the university. In Prussia, the king was forced to stand with uncovered head before the coffins of those who had been killed during the street fighting and ...
— The Story of Mankind • Hendrik van Loon |
