 See from the brake the whirring pheasant springs, And mounts exulting on triumphant wings : Short is his joy ; he feels the fiery wound, Flutters in blood, and panting beats the ground. Ah ! what avail his glossy, varying dyes, His purple crest, and scarlet-circled...  The British anthology; or, Poetical library - Page 98by British anthology - 1825Full view - About this book
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 398 lehte
...And high in air Britannia's standard flies. 110 See! from the brake the whirring pheasant springs, And mounts exulting on triumphant wings : Short is...ground. Ah ! what avail his glossy, varying dyes, 115 His purple crest, and scarlet-circled eyes, The vivid green his shining plumes unfold, His painted... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 400 lehte
...And high in air Britannia's standard flies. 110 See! from the brake the whirring pheasant springs, And mounts exulting on triumphant wings : Short is...ground. Ah ! what avail his glossy, varying dyes, 115 His purple crest, and scarlet-circled eyes, The vivid green his shining plumes unfold, His painted... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 lehte
...prize, And high in air Britannia's standard flies. Seel from the brake thewhirring pheasant springe, ew, The bells she I what avail his glossy varying dyes. His purple crest, and scarlet-circled eyes, The vivid green his... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 400 lehte
...And high in air Britannia's standard flies. 110 See! from the brake the whirring pheasant springs, And mounts exulting on triumphant wings: Short is his joy; he feels the fiery wound, Flutters in hlood, and panting beats the ground. Ah ! what avail his glossy, varying dyes, 115 His purple crest,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 lehte
...prize, And high in air Britannia's standard flies. See ! from the brake the whirring pheasant springs, historians ! 'tis your task to prove One aetion, eonduet;...A saint in erape is twiee a saint in lawn ; A judg 11 1« purple erest, and searlet-cirri к I eyes, The vivid green his shining plumes unfold, His painted... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1825 - 536 lehte
...prize, And high in air Britannia's standard flies. See ! from the brake the whirring pheasant springs, And mounts exulting on triumphant wings : Short is his joy, he feels the fiery wound, Flatters in blood, and panting beats the ground. Ah ! what avail his glossy, varying dyes, Hie purple... | |
 | 1826 - 540 lehte
...myself those beautiful lines of Pope — "See from the brake the whirring pheasant springs, And mount*, exulting, on triumphant wings. Short is his joy ;...ground. Ah ! what avail his glossy, varying dyes. His purpled crest, and scarlet-circled eyes! The vivid green, his shining plumes unfold. His painted wmfrs,... | |
 | James Jennings (of Huntspill.) - 1828 - 528 lehte
...springs, And mounts exulting on triumphant wings; Short is his joy, he feels lhe fiery wound, Flatters in blood, and panting, beats the ground. Ah ! what...painted wings, and breast that flames with gold!" Those whom MAN, for his SPORT, is ofl pleas'd to destroy, Amidst vinous lihations and hoisterous joy.'... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1828 - 608 lehte
...very slow, there is scarce any missing them. Ah ! what avail his glossy, varying dyes, His purpled crest, and scarlet-circled eyes, The vivid green his...His painted wings, and breast that flames with gold? — POPE. When these birds are taken young into keeping, they become as familiar as chickens ; and... | |
 | James Jennings - 1828 - 526 lehte
...painfully, descrihed the Pheasunt in his Wmdsor Forest: "See! from the brake the whirring pheasant springs, And mounts exulting on triumphant wings; Short is...feels the fiery wound, Flutters in blood, and panting, heats the ground. Ah! what avail his glossy varying dyes, His purple crest and scarlet-circled eyes,... | |
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