 | Henry Duncan - 1837 - 426 Seiten
...destiny of man. ' Like leaves on trees,' says the first and greatest of all uninspired writers, — ' 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... | |
 | Thomas Miller - 1837 - 466 Seiten
...destiny of man. ' Like leaves on trees,' says the first and greatest of all uninspired writers — ' 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... | |
 | 1837 - 518 Seiten
...that receives all — the grave that is never satisfied, and that never says, It is enough : thus, Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now...withering on the ground. Another race the following age supplies ; They fall successive, and successive rue : So generations in their course decay ; So... | |
 | Jørgen Erik Nielsen - 1992 - 166 Seiten
...Alexander 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...withering on the ground; Another race the following spring supplies; They fall successive, and successive rise; So generations in their course decay; So... | |
 | 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,...withering on the ground; Another race the following spring supplies, They fall successive, and successive rise. So generations in their course decay; So... | |
 | Alexander Porteous - 2005 - 325 Seiten
...table-book will 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...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... 
