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... Poems on Several Subjects: In Two Volumes - Page xxxixby John Ogilvie - 1769 - 172 pagesFull view - About this book
| English essays - 1826 - 722 pages
...J. GRAHAM. AN EPISTLE TO A FRIEND IN THI COUNTY or LIMERICK. " Likeleaves on trees the race of man is found ; Now green in youth, now withering on the ground} Another race thefollou-ing race supplies, They fall successive, and successive rise. & generations in their course... | |
| English essays - 1733 - 750 pages
...following beautiful Comparifon, preaches the fame Doclrine. . , , ve. on trees' th'e««of »tfrisfcund, green in youth, now withering on the ground : Another race- the following fpring fupplia, TheV fall I'uccelTive, and liioceflive rile: fio^^n.. in their courfe decay, So Hourifii thefe,... | |
| Homerus - 1756 - 254 pages
...fon inquire ? 180 Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now with'ring on the ground; Another race the following fpring fupplies, They fall fucceffive, and fucceffive rife* V. 181. Like leaves on trees.] There is a noble gravity in the beginning of this fpeech of Glaucus,... | |
| John Ogilvie - Classical poetry - 1769 - 618 pages
...their antiquity : O«j B-jg/ ^u^Awji ytvetij roai ft xow etyfguv, &c. td* Like leaves on trees the raee of men is found, Now green in youth, now withering...Another race the following fpring fupplies, They fall fucceflive, and fuccefllve rife ; So generations in their courfe decay. POPE,' The Ancients in general... | |
| Homerus, William Holwell - 1776 - 392 pages
...Tydeus' fon enquire ? Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now with'ring on the ground } Another race the following fpring...fucceffive, and fucceffive rife : So generations in their couffe decay ; So flouriih thcfc, when thofe are paft away. ****#****#**: Hippolochus furviv'd ; from... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 408 pages
...who my fire, (Reply'd the chief) can Tydeus' fon enquire ? 1Sa ILike leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering on the...fucceffive rife.: So generations in their courfe decay .; . 185 So flourifh thefe, when thofe are paft away. But if thou ftill perfift to fearch my birth,... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 396 pages
...who my fire, (Reply'd the chief) can Tydeus' fon enquire ? 180 Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering on the ground ; Another race the following fpring fi:pplies ; They fall fucceffive, and fucceffive rife : So generations in their courfe decay ; 185... | |
| George Colman - 1787 - 386 pages
...generations of men to the annual " fucceffion of leaves. t/AAam yntijt " Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, " Now green in youth, now withering on the...fucceffive, and fucceffive rife : " So generations in their tums decay; '' So flourifh thefe, when thofe are paft away." POPE. The tranflator of Homer has himfelf... | |
| Periodicals - 1788 - 404 pages
...falling leaves, an apt comparifon for the fugitive races of men. Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering on the...Another race the following fpring fupplies, They fall fuccefiii'c, and fucccflive rife ; So generations in their courfe decay, So .' jui i,h thcfe, when... | |
| Robert Anderson - English poetry - 1795 - 1104 pages
...or who my fire, (Reply'd the chief) can Tydeus' fon inquire ? Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering on the...Another race the following fpring fupplies ; They fall fucceflive and fuccefiive rife : So generations in their courfe decay ; So flourifh thefe, when thofe... | |
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