 | Children's poetry, English - 1820 - 190 pages
...The tender blighted plant shrinks up its leaves, and dies. LOKD LYTTELTON. THE GENERATIONS OF MAN. LIKE leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now with'ring on the ground. 62 The Wolves. Another race the following spring supplies, They fall successive,... | |
 | John Bowdler - Hymns, English - 1821 - 510 pages
...bed of death; Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep a while one parent from the sky ! 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 Gosden - 1822 - 80 pages
...quick succession of springing and falling leaves, an apt comparison for the fugitive races 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... | |
 | Arminianism - 1816 - 1004 pages
...our times, we find a passage which the fine genius of Pope has thus clothed in an English dress. ** 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,... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 304 pages
...of death. ' What, or from whence I am, or who my sire. (Replied the chief) can Tydeus' son inquire ? 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;... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1822 - 356 pages
...and 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...withering on the ground ; Another race the following spring supplies ; They fall successive, and successive rise : So generations in their course decay... | |
 | Homerus - 1822 - 320 pages
...of dealh. " What, or from whence I am, or who my sire, (Replied the chief) can Tydeus' son inquire ? 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... | |
 | Richard Carlile - Free thought - 1822 - 692 pages
...vice thsit does the soul debase, For vice is hell, and virtue peace, Then take, whic.h you prefejr. " Like leaves on trees, the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering on the ground ; They fall successive, and successive rise. Another race the following spring supplies, So flourish.... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1822 - 722 pages
...Homer are the following lines (I quote from memory, and may not be exactly correct) : " Like leaves of trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering on the ground ; The following spring another race supplies, They fall successive, and successive rise." In the Apocryphal... | |
 | Morgan Williams - Epitaphs - 1822 - 728 pages
...bless our dying breath ; Ob, Reader ! then iu Christ believe, Who every blessing else will give. IX. 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... | |
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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... 
