 | Homerus - 1808 - 574 pages
...death. What, or from whence I am, or who my sire, ( Reply id the chief) can Tydens' son enquire ? 180 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... | |
 | Thomas Tregenna Biddulph - 1810 - 490 pages
...fever, a second of a consumption, a third of old age, a fourth in the field of battle, and a fifth by * 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,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 790 pages
...Death." '' What, or from whence I am. or who my sire," (Reply'd the chief) " can Tydeus' son inquire? 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 - Anglican Communion - 1810 - 502 pages
...QvMjn ytrtv, ToiiiJa x.eu avJpWf. iJii.M« to, i'.tt f'anfiat %a[>.z<i,<; j^tn. Horn. II. £. 146. Like leaves on trees the race of man. is found, Now green in youth, now withering on the ground. Pope's Homer, b. 6. 1. 181. How sublime and affecting is that reflection in... | |
 | Greek literature - 1813 - 350 pages
...of death. ' 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 green in youth, now withering on the ground ; Another race the following spring supplies; They fall successive, and successive... | |
 | George Miller - 1813 - 638 pages
...made happy, and always returns home Kof every uneasy sensation. Natural appearances in November. Like1 leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green' in youth, now with'ririg on the ground: Another race the following spring supplies.; They fall successive, and successive... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1848 - 494 pages
...analogies to have rendered the verses in which they speak of them ' household words' for all time ! a ' Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now...with'ring on the ground ; Another race the following eprlng supplies, They fall suecessive, and suecessive rise. So generations in their course decay, So... | |
 | Firdawsī - English poetry - 1814 - 316 pages
...this is ROOSTUM whom iny eyes engage ! 1123 " Shall I, O grief! provoke my Father's rage ? Like Uares 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... | |
 | Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - English literature - 1816 - 414 pages
...which though canst not see^ i All discord, harmony, not understood; . All partial evil, universal good. 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 ;... | |
 | 1816 - 300 pages
...failing leaves, suggests to the reflecting mind an apt comparison for the fugitive generations of men ; " Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, . Now green in youth, DOW withering on the ground ; Another race the following spring supplies, They fall successive, and... | |
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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... 
