 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
 | 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...supplies ; They fall successive, and successive rise : So GENERATION* in their course decay, So flourish these, when those are past away ! The succession of... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1831 - 132 pages
...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 rise : So generations in their course decay ; So flourish these, when those are past away. V. PAGE 36. The mob of peasants, nobles, priests, and... | |
 | 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...successive rise; So generations in their course decay, So flourish these, when those are pass'd away. The loss of verdure, together with the shortened day,... | |
 | 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...successive rise : So generations in their course decay ; So flourish these, when those arc pass'd »way ;* a simile which, as originating in the sympathies... | |
 | Thomas Gillet - 1832 - 128 pages
...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...successive rise : So generations in their course decay, So flourish these when those are pass'd away." Saint Paul explains the doctrine of the resurrection... | |
 | William Hone - 1832 - 874 pages
...— Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now greca ÍD youth, now withering on the ground j er rise Than e'er they used of old : But let him know...our tears Bring floods of grief to Whitehall stairs. coarse decay ; So flourish these, when those are pass'd away ;* a simile which, as originating in the... | |
 | 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...ground; Another race the following Spring supplies : So generations in their course decay, So flourish these, when those ore passed away. Bums has an... | |
 | William Pinnock - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1833 - 738 pages
...the fugitive generation of men. " Like leaves on trees the 'race of man is fonnd, Now green in routh, now withering on the ground ', Another race the following spring supplies, They fall successive, and successivo rise ; So generations in their course decay. So flourish tktse when thote are 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...successive rise : So GENERATIONS in their course decay, So flourish these, when those are past away ! The succession of the generations of mankind from the... | |
 | 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...successive rise : So generations in their course decay, So flourish these, when those are past away. 78 CORPH Y GAINGC. 0 daw awel — blin dywydd, Ami groes... | |
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