 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 Caxtons - 78. oldalszerző: Edward George E.L. Bulwer- Lytton (1st baron.) - 1854Teljes nézet - Információ erről a könyvről
 | John Bowdler - 1821 - 510 oldal
...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 rise ; So generations... | |
 | Homerus - 1822 - 320 oldal
...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 rise: So generations... | |
 | 1816 - 1004 oldal
...we find a passage which the fine genius of Pope has thus clothed in an English dress. ** 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... | |
 | Thomas Gosden - 1822 - 80 oldal
...succession of springing and falling leaves, an apt comparison for the fugitive races 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 rise; So generations... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1822 - 356 oldal
...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 green in youth, now withering on the ground ; Another race the following spring supplies ; They fall successive, and successive rise : So generations... | |
 | Richard Carlile - 1822 - 692 oldal
...does the soul debase, For vice is hell, and virtue peace, Then take, whic.h you prefejr. " Like leaves on trees, the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering on the ground ; They fall successive, and successive rise. Another race the following spring supplies, So flourish.... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 312 oldal
...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 rise : So generations... | |
 | 1822 - 722 oldal
...Homer are the following lines (I quote from memory, and may not be exactly correct) : " Like leaves of trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering on the ground ; The following spring another race supplies, They fall successive, and successive rise." In the Apocryphal... | |
 | Morgan Williams - 1822 - 728 oldal
...dying breath ; Ob, Reader ! then iu Christ believe, Who every blessing else will give. IX. 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... | |
 | Henry Phillips - 1823 - 360 oldal
...dangerous particles. The foliage of the ash tree changes to a lemon colour in October. " 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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