 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 Works of William Cowper: His Life and Letters - Page 299by William Cowper, William Hayley - 1835Full view - About this book
 | W. M. Wade - Oxford (England) - 1818 - 524 pages
...contemplations strictly in unison with those expressed in the following lines of Pope's translation of Homer : 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 passed away. At the north-eastern corner of the cloisters rises a plain,... | |
 | W. M. Wade - Oxford (England) - 1818 - 530 pages
...contemplations strictly in unison with those expressed in the following lines of Pope's translation of Homer: Like leaves on trees the race of man is found ; Now...Another race the following spring supplies ; They fell successive, and successive rise. So generations in their course decay; So flourish these, when... | |
 | Robert Knight (vicar of Tewkesbury.) - 1818 - 142 pages
...curiosity has been just employed? it (puei, fajof <T fmyi'yvtlizi 11 jtxiu <pu£(, i' <* IL. lib. vi. 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... | |
 | 1819 - 186 pages
...of the races of men like leaves on trees the race of man is fonnd, Now green in youth, now with'ring on the ground. Another race the following spring supplies...successive rise : So generations in their course decay ; So flourish these, when those are pass'd away. Tnis loss of verdure, together with the *fiortened days,... | |
 | Geography - 1819 - 188 pages
...man. Thi* quick succession of springing and falling Jpnves has been thus beautifully applied by Homer. 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 succrsnve... | |
 | 492 pages
...springing and falling leaves, a very apposite comparison for the transitory generations of men : — Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now...successive rise; So generations in their course decay, Bo flourish these, when those are past away. CbcjFamilg jfrienD. As the damp and foggy weather, now... | |
 | Children's poetry, English - 1820 - 190 pages
...The tender blighted plant shrinks up its leaves, and dies. LOKD LYTTELTON. THE GENERATIONS OF MAN. LIKE leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now with'ring on the ground. 62 The Wolves. Another race the following spring supplies, They fall successive,... | |
 | John Bowdler - Hymns, English - 1821 - 510 pages
...bed of death; Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep a while one parent from the sky ! 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. Be thou the first true merit to befriend ; His praise is... | |
 | Alexander Jamieson - Natural history - 1821 - 448 pages
...ascertained. Now green in youth, now withering on the ground. Like leaves on trees, the race of man Is found; Another race the following spring supplies, They fall successive, and successive rise; So flourish these, when those are past away. So generations in their course decay, POPE. Effieacy of Water... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1822 - 356 pages
...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... | |
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