 | W. M. Wade - 1818 - 530 páginas
...contemplations strictly in unison with those expressed in the following lines of Pope's translation of Homer: Like leaves on trees the race of man is found ; Now...Another race the following spring supplies ; They fell successive, and successive rise. So generations in their course decay; So flourish these, when... | |
 | Robert Knight (vicar of Tewkesbury.) - 1818 - 142 páginas
...curiosity has been just employed? it (puei, fajof <T fmyi'yvtlizi 11 jtxiu <pu£(, i' <* IL. lib. vi. 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 successive... | |
 | 1819 - 186 páginas
...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...fall successive, and successive rise : So generations in their course decay ; So flourish these, when those are pass'd away. Tnis loss of verdure, together... | |
 | 1819 - 188 páginas
...man. Thi* quick succession of springing and falling Jpnves has been thus beautifully 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... | |
 | 492 páginas
...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...fall successive, and successive rise; So generations in their course decay, Bo flourish these, when those are past away. CbcjFamilg jfrienD. As the damp... | |
 | 1820 - 190 páginas
...The tender blighted plant shrinks up its leaves, and dies. LOKD LYTTELTON. THE GENERATIONS OF MAN. LIKE leaves 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,... | |
 | John Bowdler - 1821 - 510 páginas
...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...fall successive, and successive rise ; So generations in their course decay, So flourish these, when those are past away. Be thou the first true merit to... | |
 | Alexander Jamieson - 1821 - 448 páginas
...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 páginas
...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...fall successive, and successive rise: So generations in their course decay; So flourish these, when those are pass'd away. But if thou still persist to... | |
 | 1816 - 1004 páginas
...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...fall successive, and successive rise ; So generations in their course decay, So flourish these, when those are past away." HOMER'S ILIAD. An ancient Jewish... | |
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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... 
