 | John Pierpont - Readers - 1835 - 484 pages
...without bound, without consuming glow. The succession of human beings. Like leaves on trees the life 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 rise : So generations in their course decay ;... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836 - 592 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... | |
 | Lady, A Lady - Bereavement - 1836 - 338 pages
...ffrave that receives all— the grave that is never satisfied, and that never says, It is enough: thus, Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering on the ground. Another race the following age supplies; They fall successive, and successive... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836 - 526 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... | |
 | Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna - 1836 - 326 pages
...appear to have presented an obvious lesson, known and read of all men. The pagan Homer could tell us — Like leaves on trees the race of man is found ; Now green in youth, now withering on the ground. Holy scripture abounds with sublime and touching allusions to the same affecting... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835 - 360 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... | |
 | John Cole - Wellingborough (Northamptonshire) - 1837 - 326 pages
...these large trees are of the Lammas kind ; a description not now generally cultivated. TIMBER TREES. " 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,... | |
 | Henry Duncan - 1837 - 426 pages
...destiny of man. ' Like leaves on trees,' says the first and 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... | |
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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... 
