 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1831 - 130 Seiten
...man is found, They fall successive, and successive rise: Another race the following spring supplies; So generations in their course decay; So flourish these, when those are past away. Papers Homer. V. PAGE 28. The mob of peasants, nobles, priests, and kings. When the wide... | |
 | James Campbell (teacher of English.) - 1832 - 274 Seiten
...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,...decay, So flourish these, when those are pass'd away. The loss of verdure, together with the shortened day, the diminished warmth, and frequent rains, justify... | |
 | William Hone - 1832 - 852 Seiten
...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,...their course decay ; So flourish these, when those arc pass'd »way ;* a simile which, as originating in the sympathies of our common nature, has found... | |
 | William Hone - 1832 - 874 Seiten
...— Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now greca ÍD youth, now withering on the ground j er rise Than e'er they used of old : But let him know...our tears Bring floods of grief to Whitehall stairs. coarse decay ; So flourish these, when those are pass'd away ;* a simile which, as originating in the... | |
 | Conrad Wright - 1986 - 164 Seiten
...doctrines are fleeting as the leaves on the trees. They "Are found Now green in youth, now withered on the ground; Another race the following spring supplies; They fall successive and successive rise." Like the clouds of the sky, they are here to-day; to-morrow, all swept off and vanished; while Christianity... | |
 | Jørgen Erik Nielsen - 1992 - 166 Seiten
...Pope, words which, as Horace saw, are no less true about generations of words than of men: Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth,...their course decay; So flourish these, when those are passed away. NOTES [I] Cf. Pedersen (1987: 75 and 1988: 44). [2] Cf Rabin (1958) and Pedersen (1988:... | |
 | Arthur Jones - 1993 - 288 Seiten
...FOR JOSEPH CHAPMAN, A TALLOW-CHANDLER, IN THE CHURCH-YARD AT BISHOP STORTFORD, HERTS. Like leaves of trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth,...their course decay; So flourish these when those are pas'd away. 1785. Sheriff. Hertfordshire. William Phillimore of Aldenham. PETER, THE WILD BOY February... | |
 | George Hochfield - 2004 - 438 Seiten
...doctrines are fleeting as the leaves on the trees. They — are found Now green in youth, now withered on the ground: Another race the following spring supplies; They fall successive, and successive rise. Like the clouds of the sky, they are here today; tomorrow, all swept off and vanished, while Christianity... | |
 | Alexander Porteous - 2005 - 325 Seiten
...make." LEAVK OF TRIES Homer compares the race of mankind to leaves upon a tree thus : " 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." 1 The leaves of trees were, and are, often utilised in various ways for many different... | |
 | William T. Alexander - 1887 - 654 Seiten
...them — an intelligent and noble people. CHAPTER I. ANCIENT AND MODERN LIFE IN AFEICA. Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth,...successive rise : So, generations in their course decay; So nourish these when those are past away. — Homer. " IpHE human race is known to consist of different... | |
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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... 
