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 Gentleman's Magazine - Seite 3261822Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Lady, A Lady - 1836 - 338 Seiten
...receives all— the grave that is never satisfied, and that never says, It is enough: thus, Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering on the ground. Another race the following age supplies; They fall successive, and successive rise : So generations... | |
| William Cowper - 1836 - 526 Seiten
...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 rise : So generations... | |
| 1837 - 518 Seiten
...all — the grave that is never satisfied, and that never says, It is enough : thus, Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering on the ground. Another race the following age supplies ; They fall successive, and successive rue : So generations... | |
| Thomas Miller - 1837 - 466 Seiten
...' 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 rise : So generations... | |
| Henry Duncan - 1837 - 426 Seiten
...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 rise. So generations... | |
| John Cole - 1837 - 326 Seiten
...are of the Lammas kind ; a description not now generally cultivated. TIMBER TREES. " 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... | |
| Robert Daly Walker - 1838 - 284 Seiten
...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 rise. So generations... | |
| 1839 - 460 Seiten
...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, now with'riug on the ground : Another race the following spring supplies, They fall successive, and successive... | |
| Henry Duncan - 1839 - 436 Seiten
...' 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 rise. So generations... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1839 - 510 Seiten
...whence I am, or who mv sire, (Replied the chief) can Tydeus' son inquire Î Like leaves on trees tile 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... | |
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