| John Bowdler - 1821 - 510 σελίδες
...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 green in youth, now withering on the ground ; Another race the following Spring supplies, They fall successive, and successive... | |
| Alexander Jamieson - 1821 - 448 σελίδες
...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... | |
| British poets - 1822 - 304 σελίδες
...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 green in youth, now withering on the ground; Another race the following spring supplies; They fall successive, and successive... | |
| Nathan Drake - 1822 - 356 σελίδες
...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 green in youth, now withering on the ground ; Another race the following spring supplies ; They fall successive, and successive... | |
| British poets - 1822 - 312 σελίδες
...Tydeus' son inquire ? 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 are pass'd away. But if thou... | |
| Rev. W. Hutton - 1822 - 306 σελίδες
...generation of men.: — " Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Kow 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 tliese when those are passed away !" The loss of... | |
| 1816 - 1004 σελίδες
...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 green in youth, now withering on the ground. Another race the following spring supplies, They fall successive, and successive... | |
| Homerus - 1822 - 320 σελίδες
...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 green in youth, now withering on the ground ; Another race the following spring supplies; They fall successive, and successive... | |
| Richard Carlile - 1822 - 692 σελίδες
...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... | |
| Thomas Gosden - 1822 - 80 σελίδες
...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 green in youth, now withering on the ground. Another race the following Spring supplies, They fall successive, and successive... | |
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