 | Joseph R. Roach - 1996 - 356 sider
...expansion of Windsor Forest, as the waters of Thames circulate through the circumAtlantic vastness: See! from the Brake the whirring Pheasant springs,...Flutters in Blood, and panting beats the Ground. Ah! what avail his glossie, varying Dyes, His Purple Crest, and Scarlet-circled Eyes, The vivid Green his shinning... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
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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... 
