 | John Bowdler - Hymns, English - 1821 - 520 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...decay, So flourish these, when those are past away. Be thou the first true merit to befriend ; His praise is lost, who stays till all commend. Good-nature... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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...decay, So flourish these, when those are past away. POPE'S HOMER. This loss of verdure, together with the shortened days, the diminishing warmth, and frequent... | |
 | 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...decay, So flourish these, when those are past away." HOMER'S ILIAD. An ancient Jewish writer has the same thought, and he ha* given it in language very... | |
 | 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...their course decay; So flourish these, when those are pass'd away. But if thou still persist to search my birth, Then hear a tale that fills the spacious... | |
 | Homerus - 1822 - 318 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...their course decay; So flourish these, when those are pass'd away. But if thou still persist to search my birth, Then hear a tale that fills the spacious... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1822 - 356 pages
...and 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...their course decay ; So flourish these, when those are pass'd away ; * a simile which, as originating in the sympathies of our common nature, has found an... | |
 | Rev. W. Hutton - Natural history - 1822 - 306 pages
...comparison for the fugitive generation of men.: — " Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Kow green in youth, now withering on the ground ; Another...So generations in their course decay, So flourish tliese when those are passed away !" The loss of verdure, together with the shortened .days, the diminishing... | |
 | Richard Carlile - Free thought - 1822 - 692 pages
...vice thsit does the soul debase, For vice is hell, and virtue peace, Then take, whic.h you prefejr. " Like leaves on trees, the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering on the ground ; They fall successive, and successive rise. Another race the following spring supplies, So flourish.... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1822 - 724 pages
...Homer are the following lines (I quote from memory, and may not be exactly correct) : " Like leaves of trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering on the ground ; The following spring another race supplies, They fall successive, and successive rise." In the Apocryphal... | |
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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... 
