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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper - Page 52
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English Grammar: Style, Rhetoric, and Poetry ; to which are Added ...

Richard Hiley - English language - 1846 - 330 pages
...also industrious." Atone time—at another time, are sometimes elegantly expressed by now—now; as, " Like leaves on trees, the race of man is found, Now green in youth, note withering on the ground." Here—there ; as, " Here plenty, there want." In one place—in another...
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The Life and Poetical Works of the Rev. George Crabbe

George Crabbe - 1847 - 618 pages
...Such was the doctrine our young prophet taught ; 4 And here conviction, there confusion wrought ; [" Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering on the ground," &c. POPE'S Homer.} [" On the whole, the Parish Register deserves very sii•rior commendation, as well...
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Orthophony; Or, The Cultivation of the Voice, in Elocution: A Manual of ...

Elocution - 1847 - 312 pages
...is like the passing flower, That springs | to fall, and blossoms | but to die." Heroic Verse: — " Like leaves on trees | the race of man | is found...| green in youth, now | withering on the ground." Octosyllabic Verse: — " The spacious firmament | on high, With all the blue ethereal sky, And spangled...
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Orthophony, Or, The Cultivation of the Voice in Elocution: A Manual of ...

Elocution - 1848 - 310 pages
...| is like the passing flower, That springs | to fall, and blossoms | but to die!" Heroic Verse: — "Like leaves on trees | the race of man | is found...| green in youth, now | withering on the ground." Octosyllabic Verse: — " The spacious firmament | on high, With all the blue ethereal sky, And spangled...
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Floral Biography, Or, Chapters on Flowers

Charlotte Elizabeth - Flower language - 1848 - 336 pages
...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 memento of life's...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 64

England - 1848 - 802 pages
...my father, murmuring in Greek the celebrated lines of which Pope's translation is familiar to nil. u Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering on the groond." u Well, so they wish to see me. Dirt Ellinor, Lady Ellinor say that, or her — her hnsband?"...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 64

Scotland - 1848 - 798 pages
...celebrated lines of winch to me with a serene face. " Everr ant Pope's translation is familiar to all. "Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering on tho ground." " Well, so they wisn to see me. Did Ellinor, Lady Ellinor say that, or her — her husband?"...
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Orthophony; Or The Cultivation of the Voice in Elocution: A Manual of ...

William Russell - Elocution - 1849 - 320 pages
...is like the passing flower, That springs | to fall, and blossoms | but to die." Heroic Verse : — " Like leaves on trees | the race of man | is found...| green in youth, now | withering on the ground." Octosyllabic Verse: — " The spacious firmament | on high, With all the blue ethereal sky, And spangled...
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Orthopony; Or the Cultivation of the Voice, in Elocution: A Manual of ...

William Russell - 1849 - 310 pages
...| is like the passing flower, That springs | to fall, and blossoms | but to die." Heroic Verse: — "Like leaves on trees | the race of man | is found...| green in youth, now | withering on the ground." Octosyllabic Verse: — " The spacious firmament | on high, With all the blue ethereal sky, And spangled...
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A botanical guide to the flowering plants, ferns, mosses and algæ, found ...

Richard Buxton - Botany - 1849 - 200 pages
...so sudden as to throw the objeet out of the field of vicw. W. 979. " Like leaves on trees, the raee of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering on the ground. Another raee the following spring supplics ; They fall suceessive, and suceessive rise : So generations in...
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