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" With pendent train and rushing wings, Aloft the gorgeous peacock springs ; And he, the bird of hundred dyes, Whose plumes the dames of Ava prize. So rich a shade, so green a sod, Our English fairies never trod ; Yet who in Indian bow'r has stood, But... "
Narrative of a Journey Through the Upper Provinces of India, from Calcutta ... - Page 176
by Reginald Heber - 1829
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The Eclectic Review, Volume 29; Volume 47

Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1828 - 618 pages
...displayed O'er the broad plantain's humbler shade, And dusk anana's prickly blade ; While o'er tht brake, so wild and fair, The betel waves his crest...shade, so green a sod, Our English fairies never trod ! * The mucharunga. VOL. XXIX. NS EE " Yet, who in Indian bower has stood, But thought on England's...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 37

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1828 - 608 pages
...ceiua's crimson pomp display'd O'er the broad plantain's humbler shade, And dusk anana's prickly blade ; While o'er the brake, so wild and fair, The betel waves his crest in air. With pendent train and rushing wings, Aloft the gorgeous peacock springs ; And he, the bird of hundred dyes,...
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Palestine, and Other Poems

Reginald Heber - 1828 - 340 pages
...ceiba's crimson pomp display'd O'er the broad plaintain's humbler shade, And dusk anana's prickly blade ; While o'er the brake, so wild and fair, The betel waves his crest in air. With pendent train and rushing wings, Aloft the gorgeous peacock springs ; And he, the bird of hundred dyes,...
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Religious Magazine: Or, Spirit of the Foreign Theological Journals ..., Volume 1

1828 - 588 pages
...ceiba's crimson pomp disploy'd O'er the broad plantain's humbler shade, And dusk anana's prickly blade ; While o'er the brake, so wild and fair, The betel waves his crest in air. With pendent train and rushing wings, Aloft the gorgeous peacock springs; And he, the bird of hundred dyes,...
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The Oriental Herald and Journal of General Literature, Volume 16

James Silk Buckingham - 1828 - 628 pages
...ceiba's crimson pomp display 'd O'er the broad plantain's humbler shade, And dusk anana's prickly blade ; While o'er the brake so wild and fair, The betel waves his crest in air. With pendent train and rushing wings, Aloft the gorgeous peacock springs ; And he, the bird of hundred dyes,...
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The Oriental herald and colonial review [ed. by J.S. Buckingham]., Volume 16

James Silk Buckingham - 1828 - 620 pages
...ceiba's crimson pomp display'd O'er the broad plantain's humbler shade, And dusk anana's prickly blade ; While o'er the brake so wild and fair, The betel waves his crest in air. With pendent train and rushing wings, Aloft the gorgeous peacock springs ; And he, the bird of hundred dyes,...
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The Oriental Herald, Volume 16

1828 - 636 pages
...crimson pomp display 'd < O'er the broad plantain's humbler shade, I And dusk anana's prickly blade ; While o'er the brake so wild and fair, The betel waves his crest in air. With pendent train and rushing wings, Aloft the gorgeous peacock springs j And he, the bird of hundred dyes,...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 37

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1828 - 626 pages
...ceiba's crimson pomp display'd O'er the broad plantain's humbler shade, And dusk anana's prickly blade ; While o'er the brake, so wild and fair, The betel waves his crest in air. With pendent train and rushing wings, Aloft the gorgeous peacock springs ; And he, the bird of hundred dyes,...
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Some Account of the Life of Reginald Heber

Reginald Heber - 1829 - 252 pages
...ceiba's crimson pomp display 'd O'er the broad plantain's humbler shade, And dusk anana's prickly blade ; While o'er the brake, so wild and fair, The betel waves his crest in air. With pendent train and rushing wings, Aloft the gorgeous peacock springs ; * A shrub whose deep scarlet...
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The Friend, Volume 1

Robert Smith - 1829 - 432 pages
...Moslems' savoury supper steams, While all apart, beneath the wood, The Hindoo cooks his simpler food. While o'er the brake, so wild and fair, The betel waves his crest in air. Aloft the gorgeous peacock springs; With pendent train and rushing wings, And he, the bird of hundred...
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