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, 115 His purple crest, and... English Forests and Forest Trees, Historical, Legendary, and Descriptive - Strona 1091853 - Liczba stron: 406Pełny widok - Informacje o książce
| Alexander Pope - 1770 - Liczba stron: 378
...brake the whirring pheafant fprings., And mounts exulting on triumphant wings : ihort is his joy ; be feels the fiery wound, Flutters in blood, and panting beats the ground, VAR 1ATIONS. Still fpread, fair Liberty ! thy heav'nly wings,. Breathe plenty on the fields, and fragrance... | |
| John Bell - 1796 - Liczba stron: 524
...invest; Sudden they seize th' amaz'd, defenceless prize, And in high air Britannia's standard flies. iff See! from the brake the whirring pheasant springs,...the ground. Ah! what avail his glossy, varying dyes, 115 His purple crest, and scarlet-circled eyes, The vivid green his shining plumes unfold, His painted... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1779 - Liczba stron: 406
...And high in air Britannia's ftandard flies. no See ! from the brake the whirring pheafant fprings, And mounts exulting on triumphant wings : Short is...and panting beats the ground, Ah ! what avail his glofly, varying dies, 115 His purple creft, and fcarlet circled eyes, The vivid green his mining plumes... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1779 - Liczba stron: 400
...air Britannia's ftandard flies. na See ! from the brake the whirring pheafant fju ings, And monnts exulting on triumphant wings : Short is his joy ;...and panting beats the ground, Ah ! what avail his glofly, varying dies, n 5 His purple creft, and fcarlet circled eyes, The vivid green his filming plumes... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1779 - Liczba stron: 412
...flies. no See ! from the brnke the whirring pheafant fprings, And mounts exulting on triumphant wings i Short is his joy ; he feels the fiery wound, Flutters...blood, and panting beats the ground, Ah! what avail his glofly, varying dies, 113 His purple creft, and fcarlet circled eyes, The vivid green his mining plumes... | |
| 1781 - Liczba stron: 512
...And high in air Britannia's ftandard flies. 1 10 See ! from the brake the whirring pheafant fprings, And mounts exulting on triumphant wings : Short is...in blood, and panting beats the ground. Ah ! what avails his glofly, varying dyes, 1 15 His purple creft, and fear let-circled eyes, The vivid green... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1890 - Liczba stron: 562
...invest; Sudden they seize th' amazed, defenceless prize, And high in air Britannia's standard flies. See ! from the brake the whirring pheasant springs,...dyes, His purple crest, and scarlet-circled eyes, 1 Rufus was accidently slain in the New Forest, which his father had so wickedly formed, by his favourite... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - 1791 - Liczba stron: 966
...ttcircipUTehejdt Briftittnia'sitiJjAard flies. Sec! Sec!' from die brake the whirring pheafant fprings, hW0- glofly, varying dyes, His purple crcft and 1'carlet-circled eyes, The vivid green his fhining plumes... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - 1791 - Liczba stron: 510
...prize, And high in air Britannia's ftandard flics. See ! from the brake the whirring pheafant fprings, And mounts, exulting, on triumphant wings : Short...and panting beats the ground. Ah ! what avail his gloflv varying dyes, His purple creft, and fcarlct circled eyes ! The vivid green his mining plumes... | |
| 1839 - Liczba stron: 612
...difference, that the " lordly biid " ie here laid low, instead of towering ou " triumphant wings." " See from the brake the whirring pheasant springs, And mounts exulting on triumphant wings ! Short и his joy ! he feels the fiery wound, Flutters in blood, and panting beats the grouud. Ah I what avail... | |
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