 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  The Iliad of Homer - Page 224by Homer - 1769Full view - About this book
 | New Church gen. confer - 1848 - 494 pages
...speak of them ' household words' for all time! « ' Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, N ow green in youth, now with'ring on the ground; Another race the following spring supplies, They fall successive, and successive rise. So generations in their course decay, So... | |
 | Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - English literature - 1816 - 414 pages
...which though canst not see j ; All discord, harmony, not understood; All partial evil, universal good. 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 ;... | |
 | 1816 - 300 pages
...failing leaves, suggests to the reflecting mind an apt comparison for the fugitive generations of men ; " Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, . Now green in youth, DOW withering on the ground ; Another race the following spring supplies, They fall successive, and... | |
 | W. M. Wade - England - 1817 - 378 pages
...184 WALKS IN OXFORD. with those expressed in the following lines of Pope's translation of Homer: . 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... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - Arts - 1817 - 348 pages
...on the average, 25 millons must die and be born every year, ie 3000 every hour, or 50 every minute. Like leaves on trees, the race of man is found; Now green in youth, now withering on the ground, A nother race the following spring supplies, They fall successive, and successive... | |
 | W M. Wade - 1817 - 662 pages
...strictly in unison N * with those expressed in the following lines of Pope's translation of Homer : 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... | |
 | Richard Lobb - Nature study - 1817 - 418 pages
...of springing and falling leaves, a very apposite comparison for the transitory generations of nicn : Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green iu youth, now withering on the ground. They fall successive, and successive rise ; Another race the... | |
 | 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 green in youth, now withering on the ground. Another race the following spring supplies ; They fall successive, and 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 green in youth, now withering on the ground ; Another race the following Spring supplies, They fall successive, and successive... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1822 - 324 pages
...voL. 1. P " What, or from whence I am, or who my sire, (Replied the chief) can Tydeus' son inquire ? 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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