 | Thomas Church (of Massachusetts.) - 1829 - 374 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...with'ring on the ground ; Another race the following spring supplies ; They fall successive, and successive rise : So generations in their course, decay... | |
 | Benjamin Church, Thomas Church - America - 1829 - 384 pages
...Roman, would have been called the great. The following lines admirably portray the frailly of man. " Like leaves on trees the race of man is found; Now...with'ring on the ground ; Another race the following spring supplies ; They fall successive, and successive rise : So generations in their course, decay... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Months - 1830 - 188 pages
...falling leaves has been thus beautifully applied by Homer. I 5 Like leaves on trees the race of nun is found, Now green in youth, now with'ring on the ground. Another race the following spring supplies ; They fall successive, and successive rise : So generations in their course decay,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Thomas Gillet - 1832 - 128 pages
...like a flower." The ancient uninspired poets also illustrate the same subject by similar figures — " Like leaves on trees, the race of man is found, Now...with'ring on the ground : Another race the following Spring supplies ; They fall successive, and successive rise : So generations in their course decay,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | James Campbell (teacher of English.) - 1832 - 274 pages
...man. This quick succession of springing and falling leaves has been thus beautifully applied by Homer: 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 - 1835 - 390 pages
...most familiar to the reader. We extract passages, where poetic skill was most likely to be exerted. Like leaves on trees, the race of man is found, Now...with'ring on the ground ; Another race the following spring supplies ; They fall successive, and successive rise : So generations in their course decay... | |
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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... 
