 | Homerus - 1822 - 320 pages
...of dealh. " 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...successive rise: So generations in their course decay; So flourish these, when those are pass'd away. But if thou still persist to search my birth, Then hear... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1822 - 356 pages
...and 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...successive rise : So generations in their course decay ; So flourish these, when those are pass'd away ; * a simile which, as originating in the sympathies of... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 304 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...successive rise : So generations in their course decay; So flourish these, when those are pass'd away. But if thou still persist to search my birth, Then hear... | |
 | Arminianism - 1816 - 1004 pages
...our times, we find a passage which the fine genius of Pope has thus clothed in an English dress. ** Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now...successive rise ; So generations in their course decay, So flourish these, when those are past away." HOMER'S ILIAD. An ancient Jewish writer has the same thought,... | |
 | Rev. W. Hutton - Natural history - 1822 - 306 pages
...comparison for the fugitive generation of men.: — " Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Kow green in youth, now withering on the ground ; Another...successive rise; So generations in their course decay, So flourish tliese when those are passed away !" The loss of verdure, together with the shortened .days,... | |
 | Richard Carlile - Free thought - 1822 - 692 pages
...vice thsit does the soul debase, For vice is hell, and virtue peace, Then take, whic.h you prefejr. " Like leaves on trees, the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering on the ground ; They fall successive, and successive rise. Another race the following spring supplies, So flourish.... | |
 | 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 rise." In the Apocryphal... | |
 | Morgan Williams - Epitaphs - 1822 - 728 pages
...bless our dying breath ; Ob, Reader ! then iu Christ believe, Who every blessing else will give. IX. Like leaves on trees the race 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... | |
 | 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;...successive rise : So generations in their course decay, So flourish these when those are past away. POPE'S HOMER. Religion seems to overthrow every thing that... | |
 | 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...rise -. So generations in their course decay ; So flourish these, when those have past away30 THE AMERICAN [/,««<m 3, Time never returns. Mark how... | |
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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... 
