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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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A London Encyclopaedia, Or Universal Dictionary of Science, Art ..., Volume 9

Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 822 pages
...notwithstanding their natural fierinta of temper, affect always to appear sober and sedate. Aiiitm. See ! from the brake the whirring pheasant springs,...wound, Flutters in blood, and panting beats the ground. Pep.. Though now with hopeless toil we trace Time's backward rolls to find its place ; Whether the...
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The London encyclopaedia, or, Universal dictionary of science, art ..., Volume 9

Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 792 pages
...notwithstanding their natural fieratea of temper, affect always to appear sober and sedate. Addiun. See ! from the brake the whirring pheasant springs,...feels the fiery wound, Flutters in blood, and panting beau the ground. Popt. Though now with hopeless toil we trace Time's backward rolls to find its place...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: To which is Prefixed the Life of ...

Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 pages
...invest ; Sudden they seize the amazed, defenceless prize. And high in air Britannia's standard flies. le alone. О sacred weapon ! left for Truth's defence,...but the goda must guide. Reverent I touch thee ! but and scarlet circled eyes. The vivid green his shining plumes unfold, His painted wings, and breast...
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Studies in Poetry: Embracing Notices of the Lives and Writings of the Best ...

George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 pages
...of the crime of suicide, equally unworthy of the Christian and the man. SCENES FROM WINDSOR FOREST. SEE ! from the brake the whirring pheasant springs,...triumphant wings : Short is his joy ; he feels the fiery woilnd, Flutters in blood, and panting beats the ground. Ah ! what avail his glossy, varying dyes,...
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Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History ..., Volumes 3-4

Robert Chambers - American literature - 1830 - 844 pages
...heath,' had struck his young imagination. His account of the dyii; pheasant is a finished picture — + ` + flery wound, Flutters in blood, and punting beats the ground. Ah 1 what avail his glossy varying dyes,...
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A series of lessons, in prose and verse, progessively arranged [ed.] by J.M ...

James Melville M'Culloch - 1831 - 250 pages
...he spies The little beast within his stretch, — Then starts — and seizes on the wretch. BUTLER. SEE ! from the brake the whirring Pheasant springs,...avails his glossy varying dyes, His purple crest, and scarlet-circled eyes, The vivid green his shining plumes unfold, His painted wings, and breast...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1

Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1831 - 384 pages
...invest ; Sudden they seize th' amaz'd, defenceless prize, And high in air Britannia's standard flies. See ! from the brake the whirring pheasant springs,...in blood, and panting beats the ground. Ah ! what avail his glossy, varying dyes, His purple crest, and scarlet-circled eyes, The vivid green his shining...
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Calcutta Magazine and Monthly Register, Volumes 17-20

1831 - 412 pages
...yet received that attention which they deserve, we shall lay a few brief specimens before the reader. See ! from the brake the whirring pheasant springs,...feels the fiery wound, Flutters in blood and panting heats I /><• ground* Ah ! what avail his glossy varying dyes His purple crest and scarlet circled...
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The New sporting magazine, Volume 32

1856 - 736 pages
...ENGRAVED BY E. HACKEE, FROM A PAINTING BY II Altltl -ON \< Mil. Now, Mr. Pope, if you please ! — " See from the brake the whirring pheasant springs !...on triumphant wings. Short is his joy ; he feels" — But that must do for the present, as the numbering of our plate shows there is more to come. Mr....
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The New sporting magazine, Volume 10

1845 - 670 pages
...Pope in his Windsor Forest? — it is a finished picture : " See! from the brake the whirring pheatant springs, And mounts exulting on triumphant wings ! Short is his joy, he feels the firry wound, Flutters in blood, and panting, beats the ground. Ah ! what avail his glossy, varying...
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