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 invalid's medical companion and clinical adviser - Strana 33podľa J. H. Blunt - 1862 - Počet stránok 119Úplné zobrazenie - O tejto knihe
| 1820 - Počet stránok 190
...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, and successive rise... | |
| Počet stránok 492
...falling leaves, a very apposite comparison for the transitory generations 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... | |
| Alexander Jamieson - 1821 - Počet stránok 448
...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... | |
| John Bowdler - 1821 - Počet stránok 510
...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... | |
| Morgan Williams - 1822 - Počet stránok 728
...dying breath ; Ob, Reader ! then iu Christ believe, Who every blessing else will give. IX. Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth,...supplies, They fall successive, and successive rise r So generations in their course decay, So flourish these, when those are past away. General Epitaphs... | |
| Rev. W. Hutton - 1822 - Počet stránok 306
...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...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... | |
| Thomas Gosden - 1822 - Počet stránok 80
...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... | |
| Nathan Drake - 1822 - Počet stránok 356
...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... | |
| Richard Carlile - 1822 - Počet stránok 692
...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... | |
| British poets - 1822 - Počet stránok 312
...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... | |
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