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" Flung about carelessly, it shines afar, Catching the eye in many a broken link, In many a turn and traverse as it glides... "
Bradshaw's companion to the Continent - Page 189
by Edwin Lee - 1851
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The Hand-book for Travellers in Switzerland and the Alps of Savoy and ...

John Murray (Firm) - 1811 - 618 pages
...uncoiled rope or a ribbon unwound. "O'er the Simplon, o'er the Spliigen winds A piiilt of pleasure. Like a silver zone, Flung about carelessly, it shines...glides; And oft above and oft below appears, Seen oVr the wall by one who journeys up As though it were another, through the wild, Leading along, he...
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Italy, a poem [by S.Rogers].

Samuel Rogers - 1822 - 178 pages
...rider. Now the scene is changed ; And o'er Mont Cenis, o'er the Simp] on winds A path of pleasure. Like a silver zone Flung about carelessly, it shines...and oft below appears, Seen o'er the wall by him who journies up, As though it were another, not the same, Leading along he knows not whence or whither....
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The Manchester iris, Volume 2

1823 - 450 pages
...changed ; And o'er Moant Genis, o'er the Simplón winds A path of pleasure. Like a silver копе Flung about carelessly. It shines afar, Catching the eye in many a broken link, In many a tarn and traverse as it glides; Aud oft above aud oft below appears, Seen o'er the wall by him who...
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Italy: A Poem, Volume 1

Samuel Rogers - 1823 - 218 pages
...his rider. Now the scene is changed; And o'er Mont Cenis, o'er the Simplon winds A path of pleasure. Like a silver zone Flung about carelessly, it shines...and oft below appears, Seen o'er the wall by him who journies up, As though it were another, not the same, Leading along he knows not whence or whither....
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Fashionables and unfashionables

Rosalia St. Clair (pseud.) - 1827 - 782 pages
...fastnesses Now the scene is chs And o.er Mont Cenis, o.er the Simploi A path of pleasure. Like a silver zon Flung about carelessly, it shines afar, Catching the eye in many a broken lir In many a torn and traverse as it glid And oft above and oft below appears, Seen o.er the wall...
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A hand-book for travellers in Switzerland and the Alps of Savoy and Piedmont ...

John Murray - 1838 - 452 pages
...uncoiled rope or a ribbon unwound. " O'er the Simplón, o'er the Splugen winds [ A path of pleasure. Like a silver zone, Flung about carelessly, it shines...above and oft below appears, Seen o'er the wall by one who journeys up As though it were another, through the wild, Leading along, he knows not whence...
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A Hand-book for Travellers in Switzerland and the Alps of Savory and ...

John Murray (Firm) - 1838 - 446 pages
...ribbon unwound. " O'er the Simplon, o'er the Splugen windi A path of pleasure. Like a silver zuue, Flung about carelessly, it shines afar, Catching the...above and oft below appears, Seen o'er the wall by one who journeys up As though it were another, through the wild, Leading along, he knows not whence...
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A Treatise on Roads: Their History, Character, and Utility; Being the ...

Simeon DeWitt Bloodgood - 1838 - 252 pages
...and softens down into the picturesque, what others would have treated as the terrific and wonderful. Like a silver zone Flung about carelessly, it shines...broken link, In many a turn and traverse, as it glides. ***** Yet thro' its fairy course go where it will, The torrent stops it not, the rugged rock Opens...
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Select Works of the British Poets, in a Chronological Series from Falconer ...

John Aikin - 1838 - 796 pages
...changed ; And o'er Mont Cenis, o'er the Simplón winds A path of pleasure. Like я silver zone ''lung I!hp q n 1 n many a turn and traverse as it glides ; And oft above and oft below appears, Seen o'er the wall by...
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Select Works of the British Poets: In a Chronological Series from Falconer ...

John Aikin - 1838 - 750 pages
...changed ; And o'er Mont Cenis, o'er the Simplon winds A path of pleasure. Like a silver zone lung ahout carelessly, it shines afar, Catching the eye in many a broken link, n many a turn and traverse as it glides; And oft ahove and oft below appears, •een o'er the wall...
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