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" 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... "
Time's Telescope for ... ; Or, A Complete Guide to the Almanack - Page 305
1817
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The Poetical Works of Alex. Pope: With a Sketch of the Author's Life

Alexander Pope - 1825 - 536 pages
...invest , Sadden they seize th' amazed, defenceless prize, And high in air Britannia's standard flies. See ! from the brake the whirring pheasant springs,...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...
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Murray's English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry, Selected from the ...

Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - Readers - 1825 - 316 pages
...short and sharp, like the shrill swallows cry. Sound of a howstring. , The string let fly The Pheasant. See from the brake the whirring pheasant springs, And mounts exulting on triumphant wings. Scylla and Charybdis. Dire Scylla there a scene of horror forms, And here Charybdis fills the deep...
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The English Reader, Or, Pieces of Prose and Poetry: Selected from the Best ...

Lindley Murray - Readers - 1825 - 270 pages
...bow-string, The string let fly Twang'd short and sharp, like the shrill swallow's cry. The Pheasant. See ! from the brake the whirring pheasant springs, And mounts exulting on triumphant wings. Scylla and Charybdis, Dire Scylla there a scene of horror forms, And here Charybdis fills the deep...
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Sporting Magazine: Or, Monthly Calendar of the ..., Volume 17; Volume 67

Hunting - 1826 - 540 pages
...myself those beautiful lines of Pope — "See from the brake the whirring pheasant springs, And mount*, exulting, on triumphant wings. Short is his joy ;...in blood, and, panting, beats the ground. Ah ! what avail his glossy, varying dyes. His purpled crest, and scarlet-circled eyes! The vivid green, his shining...
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The English Reader, Or, Pieces in Prose and Verse, Selected from the Best ...

Lindley Murray - Readers - 1826 - 286 pages
...bum-string. The. string let fly Twang'd short and sharp, like the shrill swallow's crjThc Pheasant. Soc ! from the brake, the whirring pheasant springs. And mounts exulting on triumphant wings. 'Srylla and Charybdis. Dire Scyllathere a scene of horror forms. And here Oharybdis fills the deep...
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Murray's English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry, Selected from the ...

Lindley Murray, John Walker - Children - 1826 - 314 pages
...bowstring. , The string let fly Twang'd short and sharp, like the shrill swallows cry. The Pheasant. See from the brake the whirring pheasant springs, And mounts exulting on trinmphant wings. Scylla and Ckarybdis. Dire Scylla there a scene of horror forms, And here Charybdis...
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The English Reader, Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry: Selected from the Best ...

Lindley Murray - English literature - 1827 - 276 pages
...bow-string. • The string let fly Twang'd short and sharp, like the shrill swallow's cry. The pheasant. See ! from the brake the whirring pheasant springs, And mounts exulting on triumphant wings. Scylla and Charybdis. Dire Scylla there a scene of horrour forms, A.nd here Charybdis fills the deep...
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Ornithologia, Or The Birds: A Poem, in Two Parts with an ..., Parts 1-2

James Jennings - Birds - 1828 - 526 pages
...food can be obtained. POPE has finely, yet painfully, descrihed the Pheasunt in his Wmdsor Forest: "See! from the brake the whirring pheasant springs,...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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Ornithologia, or The birds, a poem, in 2 pt., with an intr. to their natural ...

James Jennings (of Huntspill.) - 1828 - 528 pages
...food can be obtained. POPE has finely, yet painfully, described the Pheasant in his Windsor Forett: "See! from the brake the whirring pheasant springs,...exulting on triumphant wings; Short is his joy, he feels lhe fiery wound, Flatters in blood, and panting, beats the ground. Ah ! what avail his glossy varying...
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A Description of More Than Three Hundred Animals: Interspersed with ...

Zoology - 1829 - 494 pages
...almost as tame as chickens. This beautiful bird is elegantly described in the following passage : — See ! from the brake the whirring Pheasant springs,...scarlet-circled eyes, The vivid green his shining plumes unfold. His painted wings, and breast that flames with gold ! TOPE'S WINDSOR FOREST. THE PARTRIDGE...
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