 | Thomas Gillet - 1832 - 128 Seiten
...like a flower." The ancient uninspired poets also illustrate the same subject by similar figures — " 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 rise : So generations in... | |
 | William Hone - 1832 - 852 Seiten
...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 green in youth, now withering on the ground ; Another race the following spring supplies ; They fall successive, and successive... | |
 | James Campbell (teacher of English.) - 1832 - 274 Seiten
...man. This quick 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, now withering on the ground. Another race the following spring supplies; They fall successive, and successive... | |
 | 1833 - 468 Seiten
...quoting the following passage from Pope's Homer, illustrative of the melancholy sf changeful nature:— 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 : So generations in their course... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835 - 390 Seiten
...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...green in youth, now with'ring on the ground ; Another race the following spring supplies ; They fall successive, and successive rise : So generations in... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1835 - 122 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 Pierpont - 1835 - 484 Seiten
...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... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836 - 592 Seiten
...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...green in youth, now with'ring on the ground ; Another race the following spring supplies ; They fall successive, and successive rise : So generations in... | |
 | Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna - 1836 - 326 Seiten
...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... | |
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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... 
