 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
 | 1839 - 460 Seiten
...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'ring on the ground : Another race the following spring supplies, They fall successive, and successive... | |
 | 1840 - 516 Seiten
...plantations, because it reminds us of the traasient nature of all terrestrial charms ? " Like leaves on trees, the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering on the ground ;" but the brightest and the fairest arc ever the first to fade before the chill storms of affliction,... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1840 - 360 Seiten
...I again, or one like me, explore These simple Annals of the VILLAGE POOR. (-) (1) [" Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering on the ground," &c. — POPE'S Homer.] (S) [" On the whole, the Parish Register deserves very superior commendation,... | |
 | 1842 - 538 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... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - 1849 - 316 Seiten
...so hot, That it doth singe yourself. Succession of Human Beings. 5. Like leaves on trees, the life 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... | |
 | 1844 - 276 Seiten
...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 rise ; So generations... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - 1845 - 330 Seiten
...like & flood, and it: lui will li ft up a standard against him? GBNXRATIOnS ОТ MAN. 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 j They fall successive, and successive rise : So — generations... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - 1845 - 334 Seiten
...flood, and who will lift up a standard against him? , r,EXEHATII».1S O? MAX. Like leaves on trea—the race of man is found, Now, green in youth, now, withering on the ground. Another race the following spring supplies; They/aB successive, and successive rile: So—t>tHTa!<uns—in... | |
 | Elbridge Gerry Paige - 1845 - 182 Seiten
...the mass in the end. Verily it is so. So mote it be! THE MORTALITY OP MAN. TEXT. — Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now stithering on the ground. MY HEARERS — man is composed olas perishable material as the mushroom that... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - 1842 - 316 Seiten
...so hot, That it doth singe yourself. Succession of Human Beings. 5. Like leaves on trees, the life 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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