 | Homerus - 1822 - 320 Seiten
...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...successive rise: So generations in their course decay; So flourish these, when those are pass'd away. But if thou still persist to search my birth, Then hear... | |
 | Thomas Gosden - 1822 - 80 Seiten
...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...successive rise; So generations in their course decay, So flourish these, when those are past away. POPE'S HOMER. This loss of verdure, together with the shortened... | |
 | 1816 - 1004 Seiten
...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...successive rise ; So generations in their course decay, So flourish these, when those are past away." HOMER'S ILIAD. An ancient Jewish writer has the same thought,... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1822 - 356 Seiten
...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...successive rise : So generations in their course decay ; So flourish these, when those are pass'd away ; * a simile which, as originating in the sympathies of... | |
 | Rev. W. Hutton - 1822 - 306 Seiten
...comparison for the fugitive generation of men.: — " Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Kow green in youth, now withering on the ground ; Another...successive rise; So generations in their course decay, So flourish tliese when those are passed away !" The loss of verdure, together with the shortened .days,... | |
 | Richard Carlile - 1822 - 692 Seiten
...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 supplies, So flourish.... | |
 | 1822 - 722 Seiten
...Homer are the following lines (I quote from memory, and may not be exactly correct) : " Like leaves of trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering on the ground ; The following spring another race supplies, They fall successive, and successive rise." In the Apocryphal... | |
 | Morgan Williams - 1822 - 728 Seiten
...bless our 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, now with'ring on the ground ; Another race the following Spring supplies, They fall successive, and successive... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - 1822 - 658 Seiten
...the average, 25 millions must die and be born every year, ie SOOO every hour, or 50 every minute. . * So generations in their course decay, So nourish these, when those are past away. — POPI. 313. As men have divided by chance or design, into separate governments, they... | |
 | Richard Carlile - 1823 - 816 Seiten
...following lines : Like leaves on trees the race of men is found, Now green in eartli now withering <jn the ground, Another race the following spring supplies;...successive rise : So generations in their course decay, So flourish these when those are past away. POPE'S HOMER. Religion seems to overthrow every thing that... | |
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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... 
