 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
 | William Hone - 1832 - Počet stránok 852
...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... | |
 | James Campbell (teacher of English.) - 1832 - Počet stránok 274
...succession of springing and falling leaves has been thus beautifully applied by Homer: 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... | |
 | 1833 - Počet stránok 468
...following passage from Pope's Homer, illustrative of the melancholy sf changeful nature:— 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 : So generations in their course... | |
 | William Pinnock - 1833 - Počet stránok 738
...generation of men. " Like leaves on trees the 'race of man is fonnd, Now green in routh, now withering on the ground ', Another race the following spring supplies, They fall successive, and successivo rise ; So generations in their course decay. So flourish tktse when thote are passed away... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1834 - Počet stránok 362
...Ere I again, or one like me, explore These simple Annals of the VILLAGE POOR. (2) (1) [" Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering on the ground," &c. — POPE'S Homer.] (2) [" On the whole, the Parish Register deserves... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835 - Počet stránok 390
...familiar to the reader. We extract passages, where poetic skill was most likely to be exerted. Like leaves on trees, the race of man is found, Now green in youth,...successive rise : So generations in their course decay ; So nourish these, when those are past away. Pope's Version, book vi. line 181. For as the leaves, so springs... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1835 - Počet stránok 484
...without bound, without consuming glow. The succession of human beings. Like leaves on trees the life of man is found, Now green in youth, now with'ring...their course decay ; So flourish these, when those have past away. Time never returns. Mark how it snows ! how fast the valley fills, And the sweet groves... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1835 - Počet stránok 484
...of human beings. Like leaves on trees the life of man is found, Now green in youth, now with 'ring on the ground ; Another race the following spring...their course decay; So flourish these, when those have past away. Time never returns. Mark how it snows ! how fast the valley fills, And the sweet groves... | |
 | William Cowper, William Hayley - 1835 - Počet stránok 354
...introducing this momentous question, in which the interests of humanity and justice were " 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... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1835 - Počet stránok 122
...the leaves Which the keen frost-wind of the waning year Has scatter'd on the forest soil. 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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