 | 1816 - 1004 Seiten
...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 green in youth,...their course decay, So flourish these, when those are past away." HOMER'S ILIAD. An ancient Jewish writer has the same thought, and he ha* given it in language... | |
 | Rev. W. Hutton - 1822 - 306 Seiten
...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...So generations in their course decay, So flourish tliese when those are passed away !" The loss of verdure, together with the shortened .days, the diminishing... | |
 | Richard Carlile - 1822 - 692 Seiten
...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.... | |
 | 1822 - 722 Seiten
...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 - 1822 - 728 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Henry Phillips - 1823 - 358 Seiten
...colour in October. " 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...their course decay, So flourish these, when those are past away. POPE'S Hotner. ASP, OR ASPEN-TREE.— POPULUS TREMULA. Natural order, Amentacece. A genus... | |
 | Richard Carlile - 1823 - 816 Seiten
...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;...their course decay, So flourish these when those are past away. POPE'S HOMER. Religion seems to overthrow every thing that philosophy would support, or... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1823 - 492 Seiten
...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...their course decay ; So flourish these, when those have past away30 THE AMERICAN [/,««<m 3, Time never returns. Mark how it snows ! how fast the valley... | |
 | Henry Phillips - 1823 - 360 Seiten
...dangerous particles. The foliage of the ash tree changes to a lemon colour in October. " 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... | |
 | Maria Hack - 1824 - 412 Seiten
...death: two rival brothers again advance their claims to the throne about to become vacant. " Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth,...decay; So flourish these, when those are pass'd away •." The leaves of the returning spring, resemble those of other years; but not so the generations... | |
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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... 
