 | 1820 - 190 pages
...on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now with'ring on the ground. 62 The Wolves. Another race the following spring supplies, They fall...decay, So flourish these, when those are past away. POPE'S HOMER. WOLVES. BY wint'ry famine rous'd, from all the tract Of horrid mountains, which the shining... | |
 | 1820 - 748 pages
..." Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, [ground ; Now green in youth, now withering on the Another race the following spring supplies ', They...their course decay ; So flourish these, when those are pastaway." POPE'S II.IAD, LIB. VI. 115. Memoirs of the Court of Westphalia, under Jerome Buonaparte... | |
 | 1820 - 736 pages
...in youth, now withering on the Another race the following spring supplies; They fall successive, ami successive rise: So generations in their course decay ; So flourish these, when those are pastaway." POPE'S lii.n, mi. TI. 115. Memoirt of the Court o/Westptfalia, under Jerome Buonaparte ;... | |
 | John Bowdler - 1821 - 510 pages
...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...decay, So flourish these, when those are past away. Be thou the first true merit to befriend ; His praise is lost, who stays till all commend. Good-nature... | |
 | Alexander Jamieson - 1821 - 448 pages
...ascertained. Now green in youth, now withering on the ground. Like leaves on trees, the race of man Is found; Another race the following spring supplies, They fall successive, and successive rise; So flourish these, when those are past away. So generations in their course decay, POPE. Effieacy of Water... | |
 | 1816 - 1004 pages
...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...decay, So flourish these, when those are past away." HOMER'S ILIAD. An ancient Jewish writer has the same thought, and he ha* given it in language very... | |
 | Thomas Gosden - 1822 - 80 pages
...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...decay, So flourish these, when those are past away. POPE'S HOMER. This loss of verdure, together with the shortened days, the diminishing warmth, and frequent... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 312 pages
...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...their course decay; So flourish these, when those are pass'd away. But if thou still persist to search my birth, Then hear a tale that fills the spacious... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1822 - 356 pages
...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...their course decay ; So flourish these, when those are pass'd away ; * a simile which, as originating in the sympathies of our common nature, has found an... | |
 | Homerus - 1822 - 320 pages
...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...their course decay; So flourish these, when those are pass'd away. But if thou still persist to search my birth, Then hear a tale that fills the spacious... | |
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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... 
