 | Almanacs, English - 1818 - 400 pages
...springing and falling leaves, a very apposite comparison for the transitory generations of men : — Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now...successive rise ; So generations in their course decay, So flourish these when those are past away1. POPE. The Virginia creeper fhedera quinque-foliqj is particularly... | |
 | W. M. Wade - Oxford (England) - 1818 - 530 pages
...contemplations strictly in unison with those expressed in the following lines of Pope's translation of Homer: Like leaves on trees the race of man is found ; Now...Another race the following spring supplies ; They fell successive, and successive rise. So generations in their course decay; So flourish these, when... | |
 | Robert Knight (vicar of Tewkesbury.) - 1818 - 142 pages
...curiosity has been just employed? it (puei, fajof <T fmyi'yvtlizi 11 jtxiu <pu£(, i' <* IL. lib. vi. Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now with' ring on the ground ; Another race the following spring supplies ; They fall successive, and successive... | |
 | 1819 - 186 pages
...of the races of men like leaves on trees the race of man is fonnd, Now green in youth, now with'ring on the ground. Another race the following spring supplies...successive rise : So generations in their course decay ; So flourish these, when those are pass'd away. Tnis loss of verdure, together with the *fiortened... | |
 | Geography - 1819 - 188 pages
...man. Thi* quick succession of springing and falling Jpnves has been thus beautifully applied by Homer. Like leaves on trees the race of man Is found, Now green in youth, now with'ring on the ground. Another race the following spring supplies ; They fall successive, and succrsnve... | |
 | 492 pages
...springing and falling leaves, a very apposite comparison for the transitory generations of men : — Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now...successive rise; So generations in their course decay, Bo flourish these, when those are past away. CbcjFamilg jfrienD. As the damp and foggy weather, now... | |
 | Children's poetry, English - 1820 - 190 pages
...The tender blighted plant shrinks up its leaves, and dies. LOKD LYTTELTON. THE GENERATIONS OF MAN. LIKE leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now with'ring on the ground. 62 The Wolves. Another race the following spring supplies, They fall successive,... | |
 | John Bowdler - Hymns, English - 1821 - 510 pages
...bed of death; Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep a while one parent from the sky ! Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now...successive rise ; So generations in their course decay, So flourish these, when those are past away. Be thou the first true merit to befriend ; His praise... | |
 | Alexander Jamieson - Natural history - 1821 - 448 pages
...ascertained. Now green in youth, now withering on the ground. Like leaves on trees, the race of man Is found; Another race the following spring supplies, They fall successive, and successive rise; So flourish these, when those are past away. So generations in their course decay, POPE. Effieacy of Water... | |
 | Homerus - 1822 - 320 pages
...of dealh. " What, or from whence I am, or who my sire, (Replied the chief) can Tydeus' son inquire ? Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now...successive rise: So generations in their course decay; So flourish these, when those are pass'd away. But if thou still persist to search my birth, Then hear... | |
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Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering on the ground; Another race the following spring supplies; They fall successive, and successive rise: So generations in their course decay; So flourish these, when those... 
