 | Alexander Pope - 1826 - 396 pages
...death. What, or from whence I am, or who my sire (Replied the chief), can Tydeus' non inquire ? ISO ." In the same letter he mentions Philips, as having been busy to kind withering on the groin n/ Another race the following spring supplies ; They* fall successive, and successive... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1826 - 738 pages
...each revolving age. Magilligan, Aug. 12. J. GRAHAM. AN EPISTLE TO A FRIEND IN THE CODNTY OF LIMERICK. "Like leaves on trees the race of man is found ; Now green in youth, now withering on the ground; Another race the following race supplies, They fall successive, and successive... | |
 | Benjamin Church, Thomas Church - America - 1827 - 384 pages
...Roman, -would have been called the great. The following lines admirably portray the frailty of man. " 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... | |
 | William Jones (of Nayland.) - Sermons - 1829 - 654 pages
...• Matt. xiii. 3, &c. t Om Trsf «{,iAXw xevi», TotitSs KO.i avfyaoi. li. — //y»l. It. £ . 146. Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in jouth, now with'ring on the ground. Popc'$ firmer, b. vi. 1. 181. J Job xir. t. and prosperity of this... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1831 - 132 pages
...35. Even as the leaves Which the keen frost wind of the waning year Has scattered on the forest'soil. Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth now withering on the ground j Another race the following spring supplies; They fall successive, and successive... | |
 | James Campbell (teacher of English.) - 1832 - 274 pages
...comparison for the fugitive generations of man. This quick succession of springing and falling leaves has been thus beautifully applied by Homer: Like leaves...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... | |
 | William Hone - Almanacs, English - 1832 - 852 pages
...destiny of man. Like leaves on trees, — says the first and the greatest of all uninspired writers, — 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... | |
 | 1833 - 468 pages
...quoting the following passage from Pope's Homer, illustrative of the melancholy sf changeful nature:— 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 : So generations in their course... | |
 | William Cowper, William Hayley - 1835 - 354 pages
...honour of introducing this momentous question, in which the interests of humanity and justice were " 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... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1835 - 122 pages
...40. Even as the leaves Which the keen frost-wind of the waning year Has scatter'd on the forest soil. 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... | |
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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... 
