 | Early English newspapers - 1822 - 722 pages
...Homer are the following lines (I quote from memory, and may not be exactly correct) : " Like leaves of trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering on the ground ; The following spring another race supplies, They fall successive, and successive... | |
 | Henry Phillips - Botany - 1823 - 358 pages
...inhaling these dangerous particles. The foliage of the ash tree changes to a lemon colour in October. " Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now...supplies, They fall successive, and successive rise : So generations in their course decay, So flourish these, when those are past away. POPE'S Hotner.... | |
 | Richard Carlile - Free thought - 1823 - 816 pages
...following lines : Like leaves on trees the race of men is found, Now green in eartli now withering <jn 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 are past away. POPE'S HOMER. Religion... | |
 | John Pierpont - Recitations - 1823 - 492 pages
...beings. Like leaves on trees the life of man is found, Now green in youth, now wfth'ring on the ground 5 Another race the following spring supplies, They fall successive, and successive rise -. So generations in their course decay ; So flourish these, when those have past away30 THE AMERICAN... | |
 | Maria Hack - Greece - 1824 - 412 pages
...point of death: two rival brothers again advance their claims to the throne about to become vacant. " 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... | |
 | George Wentworth - English poetry - 1824 - 378 pages
...these walls supplied, Deserted by the muse when her sweet Shakspeare died. THE STATE OF MEN COMPARED. Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now with' ring on the ground ; Another race the coming spring supplies, They fall successive, and successive... | |
 | Thomas Ignatius M. Forster - 1824 - 846 pages
...fall, remind us of the following lines of Pope's Homer, of which Johnson used to be very fond • — 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... | |
 | Benjamin Maund - 1824 - 260 pages
...yearly leaves, that now with beauty crown'd, Smile on the sun ; now, wither on the ground." Again — "Another race the following spring supplies, They fall successive, and successive rise." Our present fugitive-flowered little shrub is very ornamental, and bears ordinary winters without protection.... | |
 | 1038 pages
...the falling leaf rustling in the autumnal blast, which speaks to us affectingly of our mortality : " Like leaves on trees, the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering on the ground." Remember, then, to WHOM you belong, your Creator — "the Lord thy God."... | |
 | William Hone - Calendars - 1868 - 846 pages
...desolation, forcibly suggest to the reflecting mind an apt comparison for the fugitive generations of man.f a Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now with'ring on the ground. • DM TIB«, 17th Norembcr, 1824. t Aiktn't Natural Hiilory of tbe Yrw. Another race the following... | |
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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... 
