 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
 | 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...successive rise : So generations in their course decay, So nourish these, when those have pass'd away." Pope's Version. so deeply involved, was reserved for... | |
 | 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...successive rise • So generations in their course decay ;, So flourish these, when those are past away. Pope's Humrr. O PAGE 41 The mob of peasants, nobles,... | |
 | John Pierpont - Readers - 1835 - 484 pages
...succession of human beings. Like leaves on trees the life 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. Time never returns. Mark how it snows ! how fast the... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835 - 390 pages
...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...successive rise : So generations in their course decay ; So nourish these, when those are past away. Pope's Version, book vi. line 181. For as the leaves,... | |
 | 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...successive rise : So generations in their course decay, So nourish these, when those have pass'd away." Pope's Version. so deeply involved, was reserved for... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835 - 360 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...successive rise : So generations in their course decay, So flourish these, when those have pass'd away." Pope's Version. so deeply involved, was reserved for... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836 - 592 pages
...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...successive rise : So generations in their course decay ; So flourish these, when those are past away. Pope's \ enion, book vi. line 181. For as the leaves,... | |
 | Thomas Miller - Country life - 1837 - 466 pages
...destiny of man. ' Like leaves on trees,' says the first and 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 are pass'd away ;' — a simile which, as originating in the sympathies... | |
 | Henry Duncan - 1837 - 426 pages
...destiny of man. ' Like leaves on trees,' says the first and 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 are passed away.' " * * Drake's Evenings in Autumn. 370 REFLECTIONS OH... | |
 | John Cole - Wellingborough (Northamptonshire) - 1837 - 326 pages
...cultivated. TIMBER TREES. " 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 pass'd away." Homer, as tr. by Pope. the beautiful flowers of the... | |
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