| Alexander Pope - 1998 - 260 sider
...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,...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... | |
| Paul Baines - 2000 - 219 sider
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| 2001 - 352 sider
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| Rod Preece - 2002 - 436 sider
...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,...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... | |
| Susan Stewart - 2002 - 472 sider
...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 sider
...Afán; and the following verses, descriptive of the usual "sporting" scenes, are significant: — " 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... | |
| Alexander Pope - 2003 - 308 sider
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