 | Maria Hack - 1824 - 412 Seiten
...point of 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...withering on the ground; Another race the following spring supplies; They fall successive, and successive rise : So generations in their course decay;... | |
 | Thomas Ignatius M. Forster - 1824 - 846 Seiten
...fall, remind us of the following lines of Pope's Homer, of which Johnson used to be very fond • — Like leaves on trees, the race of man is found Now...withering on the ground ; Another race the following Spring supplies, They fall successive and successive rise; So generations in their course decay, So... | |
 | George Wentworth - 1824 - 378 Seiten
...these walls supplied, Deserted by the muse when her sweet Shakspeare died. THE STATE OF MEN COMPARED. Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now with' ring on the ground ; Another race the coming spring supplies, They fall successive, and successive... | |
 | 1038 Seiten
...the falling leaf rustling in the autumnal blast, which speaks to us affectingly of our mortality : " Like leaves on trees, the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering on the ground." Remember, then, to WHOM you belong, your Creator — "the Lord thy God." Is he thine? Are you not only... | |
 | 1826 - 738 Seiten
...each revolving age. Magilligan, Aug. 12. J. GRAHAM. AN EPISTLE TO A FRIEND IN THE CODNTY OF LIMERICK. "Like leaves on trees the race of man is found ; Now...withering on the ground; Another race the following race supplies, They fall successive, and successive rise. So generations in their course decay ; Scrfiaurish... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1826 - 396 Seiten
...death. What, or from whence I am, or who my sire (Replied the chief), can Tydeus' non inquire ? ISO Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering on the groin n/ Another race the following spring supplies ; They* fall successive, and successive rise :... | |
 | William Jones, William Stevens - 1826 - 506 Seiten
...ircp -;.u.\.\t-)i> ycvcri, TOirl^c Kai avdpuv. *u\Xa ra ficv r ayc/^os xapaSif xcci. H<m, II. (. 146. Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now with'ring on the ground. Pone's Homer, b. vi. 1. 181. 13 How sublime and affecting is that reflection... | |
 | William Hone - 1826 - 892 Seiten
...on, told her " to put it nil'; that a woman might be covered in a church, but not when arraigned in a Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now with'ring on the ground. The four crotcned Brother*, Martyrs, AD 304. St. inUehad, Bp. AD 787. St.... | |
 | William Hone - 1868 - 846 Seiten
...desolation, forcibly suggest to the reflecting mind an apt comparison for the fugitive generations of man.f a Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now with'ring on the ground. • DM TIB«, 17th Norembcr, 1824. t Aiktn't Natural Hiilory of tbe Yrw. Another... | |
 | Benjamin Church, Thomas Church - 1827 - 384 Seiten
...Roman, -would have been called the great. The following lines admirably portray the frailty of man. " Like leaves on trees the race of man is found ; Now...withering on the ground ; Another race the following spring supplies ; They fall successive, and successive rise : So generations in their course, decay... | |
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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... 
