 | James Campbell (teacher of English.) - 1832 - 274 pages
...man. This quick succession of springing and falling leaves has been thus beautifully applied by Homer: 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 Gillet - 1832 - 128 pages
...like a flower." The ancient uninspired poets also illustrate the same subject by similar figures — " 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... | |
 | 1833 - 468 pages
...quoting the following passage from Pope's Homer, illustrative of the melancholy sf changeful nature:— Like leaves on trees, the race of Man is found, Now...withering on the ground; Another race the following Spring supplies : So generations in their course decay, So flourish these, when those ore passed away.... | |
 | John Evans - Life - 1834 - 306 pages
...kingdom, and which has been the subject of general admiration — Like leaves on trees the race <tf 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,... | |
 | Corph - 1834 - 514 pages
...unwaith, wedi hyny bod bam.— HEB. ix. 27. t " Like leaves of trees, the race of man is found, Once 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,... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1835 - 122 pages
...40. Even as the leaves Which the keen frost-wind of the waning year Has scatter'd on the forest soil. 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... | |
 | William Cowper, William Hayley - 1835 - 354 pages
...honour of introducing this momentous question, in which the interests of humanity and justice were " 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,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835 - 390 pages
...most familiar to the reader. We extract passages, where poetic skill was most likely to be exerted. 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 Cowper - 1836 - 526 pages
...honour of introducing this momentous question, in which the interests of humanity and justice were " 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,... | |
 | Lady, A Lady - Bereavement - 1836 - 338 pages
...ffrave 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 rise : So generations in their course decay ; So... | |
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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... 
