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
| Thomas Campbell - 1841 - 844 lehte
...being. In a poet no kind of knowledge is to be overlooked— to a poet nothing can be useless.] [t Ah ! what avail his glossy varying dyes, His purple...His painted wings, and breast that flames with gold ? Windier Forest. This is like Whitbrcnd's Ph&nix, which Sheridan averred that he had described " like... | |
| 1841 - 276 lehte
...OCTOBER. Sec ! from the brake the whirring pheaaant springs, And mounti exulting on triumphant wiug>: Short is his joy ; he feels the fiery wound, Flutters...avail his glossy, varying dyes, His purple crest, and scarleUcircletl eyes. The vivid green his shining plumes unfold, His painted wings, and breast that... | |
| 1841 - 780 lehte
...Jl/^! ¡Ml »> 41LIVJ11 VTOO HIV *-• critic who denied that Pope pos the accomplishment of rural dc " Ah ! what avail his glossy, varying dyes — His purple...unfold ; His painted wings, and breast that flames with goW!" Mr. Bowles thinks that this description, beautiful and exact as he act Dec. 25, 1761. » Dt-c.... | |
| 1841 - 274 lehte
...fuels the fierr wound, Flutters in blood, and panting beate the ground. A h ! what avail his gloMy. varying dyes, His purple crest, and scarlet-circled...vivid green his shining plumes unfold, His painted wiugs, and breast that flame* with gold! — POPE. OUR tables are supplied with a very delicate article... | |
| James Wilson - 1842 - 194 lehte
...in Windsor forest during the reign of Anne : — See from the brake the whirring pheasant springs, And mounts exulting on triumphant wings ; Short is...wound, Flutters in blood, and panting beats the ground ! Shooting — as practised with guns to which flint and steel locks were attached — may be said... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1963 - 884 lehte
...Prize, And high in Air Britannia's Standard flies. no See! from the Brake the whirring Pheasant springs, And mounts exulting on triumphant Wings; Short is...Blood, and panting beats the Ground. Ah! what avail his glossie, varying Dyes, 115 His Purple Crest, and Scarlet-circled Eyes, The vivid Green his shining... | |
| Yasmine Gooneratne - 1976 - 164 lehte
...civilised pleasure, and cultivated as an art. See! from the Brake the whirring Pheasant springs, 1 1 1 And mounts exulting on triumphant Wings; Short is...Blood, and panting beats the Ground. Ah! what avail his glossie, varying Dyes, His Purple Crest, and Scarlet-circled Eyes, The vivid Green his shining Plumes... | |
| David Daiches - 1979 - 336 lehte
...which marks the high point of this kind of art. The shot pheasant is a heraldic bird: Ah! what avails his glossy, varying dyes, His purple crest, and scarlet-circled...His painted wings, and breast that flames with gold. The fish, too, have a similar formal beauty: Our plenteous streams a various race supnly, The bright-eyed... | |
| Margaret Anne Doody - 1985 - 308 lehte
...There is, for instance, the well-known pheasant painted in words by Pope: Ah! what avail his glossie, varying Dyes, His Purple Crest, and Scarlet-circled...His painted Wings, and Breast that flames with Gold? (Windsor Forest, lines 115-18) Colour-words are often modified with other words that capture the exact... | |
| Peter V. Jones, Keith C. Sidwell - 1986 - 638 lehte
.../ Upon a labouring day . . .? (Shakespeare) (e) See! from the Brake the whirring Pheasant springs, And mounts exulting on triumphant Wings: Short is...Wound, Flutters in Blood, and panting beats the Ground. (Pope) Exercise 79 Regular and irregular adverbs A common way of forming adverbs in English is to add... | |
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