 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
 | Robert Daly Walker - 1838 - Počet stránok 284
...and profane writers. Homer has made the comparison; which is thus translated by Pope: " 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... | |
 | 1839 - Počet stránok 460
...falling of the leaf, an apt comparison of the succession of the races of mankind : — • " Like leaves on trees the race of man is found ; Now green in youth,...So generations, in their course decay, So flourish those, when tbese are pass'd away." The autumnal tint occasioned by the loss of verdure, together with... | |
 | Henry Duncan - 1839 - Počet stránok 436
...man. ' Like leaves on trees,' says the first and 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... | |
 | Thomas Gage - 1840 - Počet stránok 530
...Stephen Harris, by a fall from a horse, aged about 62 years. " Like leaves on trees the race of man in found, Now green in youth, now with'ring on the ground,...So generations in their course decay : So flourish those, when those are past away." — Porz. " It 's not the whole of life to live, Nor all of death... | |
 | Conrad Wright - 1986 - Počet stránok 164
...doctrines are fleeting as the leaves on the trees. They "Are found Now green in youth, now withered on the ground; Another race the following spring supplies; They fall successive and successive rise." Like the clouds of the sky, they are here to-day; to-morrow, all swept off and vanished; while Christianity... | |
 | Jørgen Erik Nielsen - 1992 - Počet stránok 166
...Pope, words which, as Horace saw, are no less true about generations of words than 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... | |
 | George Hochfield - 2004 - Počet stránok 438
...doctrines are fleeting as the leaves on the trees. They — are found Now green in youth, now withered on the ground: Another race the following spring supplies; They fall successive, and successive rise. Like the clouds of the sky, they are here today; tomorrow, all swept off and vanished, while Christianity... | |
 | Arthur Jones - 1993 - Počet stránok 288
...FOR JOSEPH CHAPMAN, A TALLOW-CHANDLER, IN THE CHURCH-YARD AT BISHOP STORTFORD, HERTS. Like leaves of 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 Porteous - 2005 - Počet stránok 325
...make." LEAVK OF TRIES Homer compares the race of mankind to leaves upon a tree thus : " 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... | |
 | William T. Alexander - 1887 - Počet stránok 654
...MODERN LIFE IN AFEICA. Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering on the ground ; Another race the following spring...successive rise : So, generations in their course decay; So nourish these when those are past away. — Homer. " IpHE human race is known to consist of different... | |
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