 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...  The Iliad of Homer, tr. by A. Pope - Page 143by Homerus - 1808Full view - About this book
 | Firdawsī - English poetry - 1814 - 316 pages
...this is ROOSTUM whom iny eyes engage ! 1123 " Shall I, O grief! provoke my Father's rage ? Like Uares on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth,...successive rise : So generations in their course decay ; So flourish these, when those are pass'd away. POPE. The Persian poets, and particularly Firdo'usee,... | |
 | Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - English literature - 1816 - 414 pages
...evil, universal good. 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...successive rise : So generations in their course decay ; So flourish these, when those have past away. Reason's whole pleasure, all the- joys of sense, Lie... | |
 | 1816 - 300 pages
...fugitive generations of men ; " Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, . Now green in youth, DOW withering on the ground ; Another race the following...successive, and successive rise ; So generations in their eeupse decay, So flourish tkesc. when those are passed away !*' The loss of verdure, together with... | |
 | Richard Lobb - Nature study - 1817 - 418 pages
...of springing and falling leaves, a very apposite comparison for the transitory generations of men : Like leaves on. trees the race of man is found, Now...successive rise ; So generations in their course decay, So flourish these, when those are past away. POPE. The autumnal forest, it has been .justly observedi,... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - Arts - 1817 - 348 pages
...on the average, 25 millons must die and be born every year, ie 3000 every hour, or 50 every minute. Like leaves on trees, the race of man is found; Now...successive rise ; So generations in their course decay, > So flourish these, when those are past away. — POPE. 313. As men have divided by chance or design,... | |
 | W M. Wade - 1817 - 662 pages
...strictly in unison N * with those expressed in the following lines of Pope's translation of Homer : Like leaves on trees the race of man is found ; Now...successive rise. So generations in their course decay ; So flourish these, when those are passed away. At the north-eastern corner of the cloisters rises... | |
 | Almanacs, English - 1818 - 400 pages
...springing and falling leaves, a very apposite comparison for the transitory generations of men : — Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now...successive rise ; So generations in their course decay, So flourish these when those are past away1. POPE. The Virginia creeper fhedera quinque-foliqj is particularly... | |
 | W. M. Wade - Oxford (England) - 1818 - 524 pages
...contemplations strictly in unison with those expressed in the following lines of Pope's translation of Homer : Like leaves on trees the race of man is found ; Now...successive rise. So generations in their course decay ; So flourish these, when those are passed away. At the north-eastern corner of the cloisters rises... | |
 | W. M. Wade - Oxford (England) - 1818 - 530 pages
...contemplations strictly in unison with those expressed in the following lines of Pope's translation of Homer: Like leaves on trees the race of man is found ; Now...Another race the following spring supplies ; They fell successive, and successive rise. So generations in their course decay; So flourish these, when... | |
 | Robert Knight (vicar of Tewkesbury.) - 1818 - 142 pages
...i' <* IL. lib. vi. 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...successive rise : So generations in their course decay ; So nourish these, when those are past away." POPE. CAMPANILE at Tewkesbury, pulled down 1817See p.... | |
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