 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
 | 1819 - 186 pages
...of the races of men like leaves on trees the race of man is fonnd, Now green in youth, now with'ring on the ground. Another race the following spring supplies...successive rise : So generations in their course decay ; So flourish these, when those are pass'd away. Tnis loss of verdure, together with the *fiortened... | |
 | Geography - 1819 - 188 pages
...applied by Homer. 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 succrsnve rise; So generations In their course decay, So flourish these, when those are pass'd away.... | |
 | 492 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, Bo flourish these, when those are past away. CbcjFamilg jfrienD. As the damp and foggy weather, now... | |
 | Children's poetry, English - 1820 - 190 pages
...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 rise : So generations in their course decay, So flourish these, when those are past away. POPE'S HOMER. WOLVES. BY wint'ry famine rous'd, from all... | |
 | 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...successive rise ; So generations in their course decay, So flourish these, when those are past away. Be thou the first true merit to befriend ; His praise... | |
 | Alexander Jamieson - Natural history - 1821 - 448 pages
...ascertained. Now green in youth, now withering on the ground. Like leaves on trees, the race of man Is found; Another race the following spring supplies, They fall successive, and successive rise; So flourish these, when those are past away. So generations in their course decay, POPE. Effieacy of Water... | |
 | 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...successive rise: So generations in their course decay; So flourish these, when those are pass'd away. But if thou still persist to search my birth, Then hear... | |
 | 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...successive rise : So generations in their course decay; So flourish these, when those are pass'd away. But if thou still persist to search my birth, Then hear... | |
 | 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...successive rise; So generations in their course decay, So flourish these, when those are past away. POPE'S HOMER. This loss of verdure, together with the... | |
 | 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...successive rise ; So generations in their course decay, So flourish these, when those are past away." HOMER'S ILIAD. An ancient Jewish writer has the same... | |
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