 | Alexander Pope - 1998 - 260 Seiten
...invest; Sudden they seize th' amazed, defenceless prize, And high in air Britannia's standard flies. no See! from the brake the whirring pheasant springs,...avail his glossy, varying dyes, His purple crest, and scarlet-circled eyes, The vivid green his shining plumes unfold, His painted wings, and breast that... | |
 | Paul Baines - 2000 - 219 Seiten
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 | 2001 - 352 Seiten
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 | Rod Preece - 2002 - 436 Seiten
...that be to us?7 In his poem Windsor Forest (1713) Pope expressed his quiet disgust for the fowler: See! from the brake the whirring pheasant springs,...avail his glossy, varying dyes, His purple crest, and scarlet-circled eyes, The vivid green his shining plumes unfold, His painted wings, and breast that... | |
 | Susan Stewart - 2002 - 472 Seiten
...nature descriptions are dramatically vivid, as in these lines (111-114) on the shooting of a pheasant: See! from the brake the whirring pheasant springs,...wound, Flutters in blood, and panting beats the ground. See "Windsor Forest," 41. 9. See, for example, Jean Mallinson, "Anne Finch"; Charles H. Hinnant, The... | |
 | Howard Williams - 2003 - 436 Seiten
...Afán; and the following verses, descriptive of the usual "sporting" scenes, are significant: — " See ! from the brake the whirring Pheasant springs,...avail his glossy, varying dyes, His purple crest and scarlet-circled eyes — The vivid green his shining plumes unfold, His painted wings, and breast that... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 2003 - 308 Seiten
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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... 
