 | William Jones, William Stevens - Theology - 1826 - 506 pages
...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... | |
 | Benjamin Church, Thomas Church - America - 1827 - 384 pages
...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... | |
 | Eliza Robbins - Children's poetry - 1828 - 408 pages
...blighted plant shrinks up its leaves, and dies. Lord Lyttleton. GENERATIONS OF MAN. Like leaves entrees 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,... | |
 | Thomas Church (of Massachusetts.) - 1829 - 374 pages
...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 green in youth, now with'ring on the ground ; Another race the following spring supplies ; They fall successive, and successive... | |
 | Benjamin Church, Thomas Church - America - 1829 - 384 pages
...Roman, would have been called the great. The following lines admirably portray the frailly of man. " 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... | |
 | William Jones (of Nayland.) - Sermons - 1829 - 654 pages
...• Matt. xiii. 3, &c. t Om Trsf «{,iAXw xevi», TotitSs KO.i avfyaoi. li. — //y»l. It. £ . 146. Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in jouth, now with'ring on the ground. Popc'$ firmer, b. vi. 1. 181. J Job xir. t. and prosperity of this... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 pages
...Replied the chief,) can Tydeus' son inquire ? 1* Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, low crystal flood ; Luxuriant on the wave-worn bank he lay, Stretch'd fort spring supplies ; Phey fall successive, and successive rise : So generations in their course decay... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1831 - 132 pages
...35. Even as the leaves Which the keen frost wind of the waning year Has scattered on the forest'soil. Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth now withering on the ground j Another race the following spring supplies; They fall successive, and successive rise : So generations... | |
 | John Evans - Life - 1831 - 322 pages
...has been the subject of general admiration — Like leaves on trees the race of man it found, -Vow green in youth, now withering on the ground ; Another RACE the following spring supplies ; They fall successive, and successive rise : So GENERATION* in their course decay,... | |
 | William Hone - Almanacs, English - 1832 - 852 pages
...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... | |
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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... 
