 | Eliza Robbins - 1828 - 408 páginas
...blighted plant shrinks up its leaves, and dies. Lord Lyttleton. GENERATIONS OF MAN. Like leaves entrees 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,... | |
 | Benjamin Church, Thomas Church - 1829 - 384 páginas
...Roman, would have been called the great. The following lines admirably portray the frailly of man. " 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... | |
 | Thomas Church (of Massachusetts.) - 1829 - 374 páginas
...Roman, would have been called the great. The following lines admirably portray the frailty of man. " 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... | |
 | William Jones (of Nayland.) - 1829 - 654 páginas
...• Matt. xiii. 3, &c. t Om Trsf «{,iAXw xevi», TotitSs KO.i avfyaoi. li. — //y»l. It. £ . 146. Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in jouth, now with'ring on the ground. Popc'$ firmer, b. vi. 1. 181. J Job xir. t. and prosperity of this... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 páginas
...Replied the chief,) can Tydeus' son inquire ? 1* Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, low crystal flood ; Luxuriant on the wave-worn bank he lay, Stretch'd fort spring supplies ; Phey fall successive, and successive rise : So generations in their course decay... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1831 - 132 páginas
...35. Even as the leaves Which the keen frost wind of the waning year Has scattered on the forest'soil. Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth now withering on the ground j Another race the following spring supplies; They fall successive, and successive rise : So generations... | |
 | John Evans - 1831 - 322 páginas
...has been the subject of general admiration — Like leaves on trees the race of man it found, -Vow green in youth, now withering on the ground ; Another RACE the following spring supplies ; They fall successive, and successive rise : So GENERATION* in their course decay,... | |
 | William Hone - 1832 - 852 páginas
...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...withering on the ground ; Another race the following spring supplies ; They fall successive, and successive rise : So generations in their course decay... | |
 | James Campbell (teacher of English.) - 1832 - 274 páginas
...man. This quick succession of springing and falling leaves has been thus beautifully applied by Homer: Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now...withering on the ground. Another race the following spring supplies; They fall successive, and successive rise; So generations in their course decay, So... | |
 | Thomas Gillet - 1832 - 128 páginas
...like a flower." The ancient uninspired poets also illustrate the same subject by similar figures — " 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... | |
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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... 
