 | American literature - 1787 - 430 pages
...race ;. Be but thou our helpmate dear, We'll begin -our heaven here. LIKE leaves on trees the life of man is found. Now green in youth, now with'ring on the ground. One race of men another race fupplies ; They fall fucceffive, and fuccefiive rife. AH ! what a wond'rous... | |
 | Periodicals - 1788 - 404 pages
...quick fucceffion of fpringing and falling leaves, an apt comparifon for the fugitive races of men. Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering on the ground. Another race the following fpring fupplies, They fall fuccefiii'c, and fucccflive... | |
 | Homer - 1791 - 410 pages
...of death. What, or from whence I am, or who my fire, (Reply'd the chief) can Tydcus* fon enquire ? 180 Like leaves on trees the race of man is found,...green in youth, now with'ring on the ground, Another V. 170. Immortals Heft with endlefseafe,] Though Dacier'sand mod of the vertionf take no notice of... | |
 | 1792 - 404 pages
...repeating to a new race what had, in years pail, been delivered to their forefathers, ftill continues. " Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now with'ring on the ground j Another race the following fpring fupplies; They fall fucceffive, and iucceffive riie: So generations... | |
 | emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus - 1792 - 392 pages
...from grief or fear. Such is that of the poet: " Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, . ct Now green in youth, now with'ring on the " ground:...Another race the following fpring fupplies, " They fall fuccefllve, and fucceflive rife." POPE. Your children are but leaves; and thofe gentlemen who declaim... | |
 | Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome) - Philosophy - 1792 - 396 pages
...fhorteft and moft obvious hint may fuffice to fet him free from grief or fear. Such is that of the poet: " Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, " Now green in youth, now withering on die " ground : ** Another race the following fpring fupplies, " They fall fucceflive,... | |
 | Robert Anderson - English poetry - 1795 - 1104 pages
...of death. What, or from whi;.ce I am, or who my fire, (Reply'd the chief) can Tydeus' fon inquire ? Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering on the ground ; Another race the following fpring fupplies ; They fall fucceflive and fuccefiive... | |
 | Robert Anderson - English poetry - 1795 - 902 pages
...of death. What, or from whence I am, or who my fire, (Reply'd the chief) can Tydeus' fon inquire ? Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green inyouth.now withering on the groundAnother race the following fpring fupplies ; They fall fucceffive... | |
 | 1792 - 918 pages
...death. What, or from whence I л;п, or who my fire, f Reply'd the chief) can Tydeus' fon inquire ? Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green inyouth,now withering on the ground Another race the following fpring fupplies ; They fall fucccltive... | |
 | Homer - Achilles (Greek mythology) - 1796 - 428 pages
...birth. What, or from whence I am, or who my fire, (Reply 'd the chief) can Tydeus'fon enquire? 189 Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now with'ring on the ground ; Come neare, that thou maift foone arrive on that lifebounding fhore, To which I fee thee hoife fuch... | |
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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... 
