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 Gentleman's Magazine - Página 2431826Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Thomas Miller - 1837 - 466 páginas
...destiny of man. ' Like leaves on trees,' says the first and 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... | |
| Henry Duncan - 1837 - 426 páginas
...destiny of man. ' Like leaves on trees,' says the first and 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, So... | |
| John Cole - 1837 - 326 páginas
...these large trees are of the Lammas kind ; a description not now generally cultivated. TIMBER TREES. " 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... | |
| Jørgen Erik Nielsen - 1992 - 166 páginas
...Alexander Pope, words which, as Horace saw, are no less true about generations of words than of men: 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... | |
| Arthur Jones - 1993 - 288 páginas
...FOR JOSEPH CHAPMAN, A TALLOW-CHANDLER, IN THE CHURCH-YARD AT BISHOP STORTFORD, HERTS. Like leaves of trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth,...withering on the ground; Another race the following spring supplies, They fall successive, and successive rise. So generations in their course decay; So... | |
| Alexander Porteous - 2005 - 325 páginas
...table-book will make." LEAVK OF TRIES Homer compares the race of mankind to leaves upon a tree thus : " 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;... | |
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