| W M. Wade - 1817 - 662 σελίδες
...strictly in unison N * with those expressed in the following lines of Pope's translation of Homer : Like leaves on trees the race of man is found ; Now...withering on the ground. Another race the following spring supplies ; They fall successive, and successive rise. So generations in their course decay ;... | |
| Sir Richard Phillips - 1817 - 348 σελίδες
...on the average, 25 millons must die and be born every year, ie 3000 every hour, or 50 every minute. Like leaves on trees, the race of man is found; Now...withering on the ground. Another race the following spring supplies, They fall successive, and successive rise ; So generations in their course decay,... | |
| Richard Lobb - 1817 - 418 σελίδες
...of 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...withering on the ground. Another race the following spring supplies, They fall successive, and successive rise ; So generations in their course decay,... | |
| 1818 - 400 σελίδες
...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...withering on the ground. Another race the following spring supplies. They fall successive, and successive rise ; So generations in their course decay,... | |
| W. M. Wade - 1818 - 524 σελίδες
...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...withering on the ground. Another race the following spring supplies ; They fall successive, and successive rise. So generations in their course decay ;... | |
| Robert Knight (vicar of Tewkesbury.) - 1818 - 142 σελίδες
...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 - 188 σελίδες
...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 σελίδες
...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...withering on the ground. Another race the following Spring supplies, They fall successive, and successive rise; So generations in their course decay, Bo... | |
| 1820 - 190 σελίδες
...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 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...withering on the ground ; Another race the following Spring supplies, They fall successive, and successive rise ; So generations in their course decay,... | |
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