 | Alexander Pope - 1835 - 378 pages
...; Sudden they seize the amazed, defenceless prize, And high in air Britannia's standard flies. 110 See ! from the brake the whirring pheasant springs,...in blood, and panting beats the ground. Ah ! what avail his glossy, varying dies, 115 His purple crest, and scarlet-circled eyes, The vivid green his... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1836 - 502 pages
...invest ; Sudden they seize the amazed, defenceless prize, And high in air Britannia's standard flies. P e e* and scarlet circled eyes, The vivid green his shining plumes unfold, Hi« painted wings, and breast... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1836 - 332 pages
...invest ; Sudden they seize the amazed, defenceless prize, And high in air Britannia's standard flies. See ! from the brake the whirring pheasant springs, And mounts exulting on triumphant wing> : Short is his joy, he feels the fiery wound, Flutters in blood, and panting beats the ground.... | |
 | Lawrence Rawstorne - Game bird management - 1837 - 250 pages
...we have just listened ; " See from the brake the whirring pheasant springs, And mounts exulting with triumphant wings : Short is his joy ; he feels the...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... | |
 | Lawrence Rawstorne - Game bird management - 1837 - 280 pages
...we have just listened ; " See from the brake the whj-ring pheasant springs, And mounts exulting with triumphant wings : Short is his joy ; he feels the fiery wound, Flutters in blocxl, and panting beats the ground. Ah ! what avail his glo<.-y varying dyes, His purple crest, and... | |
 | 642 pages
...to mind that exquisite description of Pope in his Windsor Forest ? — it is a finished picture : " 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... | |
 | William Hamilton Drummond - Animal welfare - 1838 - 246 pages
...pheasant with his usual descriptive powers, but he exhausts his pity in a single interjection :— " See from the brake the whirring pheasant springs,...Flutters 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... | |
 | 726 pages
...RISE. ENGRAVED BY E. HACKEE, FROM A PAINTING BY HARBISON WEIB. Now, Mr. P<jpe, if you please ! — " See from the brake the whirring pheasant springs !...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. Weir... | |
 | John William Carleton - 1845 - 700 pages
...to mind that exquisite description of Pope in his Windsor Forest ? — it is a finished picture : " See! from the brake the whirring pheasant springs,...in blood, and panting, beats the ground. Ah ! what avail his glossy, varying dyei , His purple crest, and scarlet-circled eyes, The vivid green his shining... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1839 - 510 pages
...defenceless prize, And high in air Britannia's standard flies. Sec ! from the brake the whirringpheasant her mixt ; sweet recreation : And innocence, which...live, unseen, unknown, Thus unlamcnted let me die, avail his glossy, varying dyes, His purple crest, and scarlet-circled eyes, The vivid green his shining... | |
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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... 
