Search Images Maps Play YouTube News Gmail Drive More »
Sign in
Books Books
" 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 Universal Preceptor: Being a General Grammar of Arts, Sciences, and ... - Page 108
by Sir Richard Phillips - 1826 - 312 pages
Full view - About this book

The Works of the English Poets: Pope's Homer. The Iliad -v.37-38 Pope's ...

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 408 pages
...What, or from whence I am, or who my fire, (Reply'd the chief) can Tydeus' fon enquire ? 1Sa ILike leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green...withering on the ground ; Another race the following fpring fupplies ; They fall fucceffive, and fucceffive rife.: So generations in their courfe decay...
Full view - About this book

The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and ..., Volume 35

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 462 pages
...death. What, or from whence I am, or who my fire, (Reply'd the chief) can Tydens' fon enquire ? it» Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering on the ground j Another race the following fpring fupplies i They fall fucceifive, and fuccefllve rife ; So generations...
Full view - About this book

Prose on Several Occasions: Accompanied with Some Pieces in Verse, Volume 3

George Colman - 1787 - 370 pages
...fixth book of the Iliad, " comparing the generations of men to the annual «« fucceffion of leaves. " Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, " Now...withering on the ground ; " Another race the following fpring fupplies, " They fall fucceffive, and fucceffive rife: " So generations in their tums decay;...
Full view - About this book

The County Magazine, Volume 1

Periodicals - 1788 - 404 pages
...quick fucceffion of fpringing and falling leaves, an apt comparifon for the fugitive races of men. Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now...withering on the ground. Another race the following fpring fupplies, They fall fuccefiii'c, and fucccflive rife ; So generations in their courfe decay,...
Full view - About this book

The Iliad: Of Homer. Translated by Mr. Pope. ...

Homer - 1791 - 410 pages
...death. What, or from whence I am, or who my fire, (Reply'd the chief) can Tydcus* fon enquire ? 180 Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now with'ring on the ground, Another V. 170. Immortals Heft with endlefseafe,] Though Dacier'sand mod of...
Full view - About this book

The Meditations of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome) - Philosophy - 1792 - 396 pages
...fhorteft and moft obvious hint may fuffice to fet him free from grief or fear. Such is that of the poet: " Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, " Now green in youth, now withering on die " ground : ** Another race the following fpring fupplies, " They fall fucceflive, and fucceffive...
Full view - About this book

Collection of English Almanacs for the Years 1702-1835

1792 - 404 pages
...repeating to a new race what had, in years pail, been delivered to their forefathers, ftill continues. " Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now with'ring on the ground j Another race the following fpring fupplies; They fall fucceffive, and iucceffive...
Full view - About this book

The Works of the British Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical ...

Robert Anderson - English poetry - 1795 - 1104 pages
...of death. What, or from whi;.ce I am, or who my fire, (Reply'd the chief) can Tydeus' fon inquire ? Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now...withering on the ground ; Another race the following fpring fupplies ; They fall fucceflive and fuccefiive rife : So generations in their courfe decay ;...
Full view - About this book

The Works of the British Poets, Volume 12

Robert Anderson - English poetry - 1795 - 902 pages
...of death. What, or from whence I am, or who my fire, (Reply'd the chief) can Tydeus' fon inquire ? Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green inyouth.now withering on the groundAnother race the following fpring fupplies ; They fall fucceffive...
Full view - About this book

A Complete Edition of the Poets of Great Britain..: Pope's Iliad & Odyssey ...

1792 - 918 pages
...death. What, or from whence I л;п, or who my fire, f Reply'd the chief) can Tydeus' fon inquire ? Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green inyouth,now withering on the ground Another race the following fpring fupplies ; They fall fucccltive...
Full view - About this book




  1. My library
  2. Help
  3. Advanced Book Search
  4. Download EPUB
  5. Download PDF