 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 Visitor: By Several Hands - Página 182por William Dodd - 1764Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Henry Duncan - 1837 - 426 páginas
...destiny of 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... | |
 | Robert Daly Walker - 1838 - 284 páginas
...both sacred 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 - 460 páginas
...springing and the 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... | |
 | 1839 - 460 páginas
...and the 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...with'ring on the ground : Another race the following spring supplies, They fall successive, and successive rise, So generations, in their course decay,... | |
 | William Gardiner - 1927 - 328 páginas
...certainty for an uncertainty.— Johnson. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill.—Johnson. 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... | |
 | 1924 - 222 páginas
...brought on a sudden dissolution. His loss is sincerely lamented by his relatives and acquaintance. "Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering on the ground." (Friday, Aug. 24, 1798) On Friday last, in the afternoon, as Mr. Elias C.... | |
 | Jørgen Erik Nielsen - 1992 - 166 páginas
...Alexander 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... | |
 | Arthur Jones - 1993 - 288 páginas
...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 - 325 páginas
...table-book will 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... | |
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