 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...  Introductory English reading book - 76. oldalszerző: William Jillard Hort - 1822 - 171 oldalTeljes nézet - Információ erről a könyvről
 | 1841 - 276 oldal
...OCTOBER. Sec ! from the brake the whirring pheaaant springs, And mounti exulting on triumphant wiug>: Short is his joy ; he feels the fiery wound, Flutters...avail his glossy, varying dyes, His purple crest, and scarleUcircletl eyes. The vivid green his shining plumes unfold, His painted wings, and breast that... | |
 | 1841 - 780 oldal
...accomplishment of rural dc " Ah ! what 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 flames with goW!" Mr. Bowles thinks that this description, beautiful and exact as he act Dec.... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1841 - 844 oldal
...can be useless.] [t Ah ! what avail his glossy varying dyes, His purple crest, and scarlet-circled 0/8 0/ // that flames with gold ? Windier Forest. This is like Whitbrcnd's Ph&nix, which Sheridan averred that... | |
 | James Wilson - 1842 - 194 oldal
...Anne : — 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 ! Shooting — as practised with guns to which flint and steel locks were attached — may be said... | |
 | Anne Kent - 1846 - 942 oldal
...net. See ! from the brake the whirring pheasant springs, And mounts exulting on triumphant wings : Short is his joy ; he feels the fiery wound, Flutters...avail his glossy, varying dyes, His purple crest, and scarlet-circled eyes. VIOLET ALSINGER was so used to triumphs and conquests, that she treated them... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1963 - 884 oldal
...flies. no See! from the Brake the whirring Pheasant springs, And mounts exulting on triumphant Wings; Short is his Joy ! he feels the fiery Wound, Flutters...Blood, and panting beats the Ground. Ah! what avail his glossie, varying Dyes, 115 His Purple Crest, and Scarlet-circled Eyes, The vivid Green his shining... | |
 | Yasmine Gooneratne - 1976 - 164 oldal
...art. See! from the Brake the whirring Pheasant springs, 1 1 1 And mounts exulting on triumphant Wings; Short is his Joy! he feels the fiery Wound, Flutters...Blood, and panting beats the Ground. Ah! what avail his glossie, varying Dyes, His Purple Crest, and Scarlet-circled Eyes, The vivid Green his shining Plumes... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 oldal
...is a heraldic bird: Ah! what avails his glossy, varying dyes, His purple crest, and scarlet-circled eyes, The vivid green his shining plumes unfold, His painted wings, and breast that flames with gold. The fish, too, have a similar formal beauty: Our plenteous streams a various... | |
 | Margaret Anne Doody, Professor of English Margaret Anne Doody - 1985 - 314 oldal
...painted in words by Pope: Ah! what avail his glossie, varying Dyes, His Purple Crest, and Scarlet-circled Eyes, The vivid Green his shining Plumes unfold; His painted Wings, and Breast that flames with Gold? (Windsor Forest, lines 115-18) Colour-words are often modified with other words... | |
 | Peter V. Jones, Keith C. Sidwell - 1986 - 638 oldal
...(Shakespeare) (e) 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. (Pope) Exercise 79 Regular and irregular adverbs A common way of forming adverbs in English is to add... | |
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