 | Thomas Church (of Massachusetts.) - 1829 - 374 pages
...Roman, would have been called the great. The following lines admirably portray the frailty of man. " 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... | |
 | Benjamin Church, Thomas Church - 1829 - 384 pages
...Roman, would have been called the great. The following lines admirably portray the frailly of man. " 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... | |
 | William Jones (of Nayland.) - 1829 - 654 pages
...• Matt. xiii. 3, &c. t Om Trsf «{,iAXw xevi», TotitSs KO.i avfyaoi. li. — //y»l. It. £ . 146. Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in jouth, now with'ring on the ground. Popc'$ firmer, b. vi. 1. 181. J Job xir. t. and prosperity of this... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1831 - 132 pages
...35. Even as the leaves Which the keen frost wind of the waning year Has scattered on the forest'soil. Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth now withering on the ground j Another race the following spring supplies; They fall successive, and successive rise : So generations... | |
 | Thomas Gillet - 1832 - 128 pages
...like a flower." The ancient uninspired poets also illustrate the same subject by similar figures — " 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... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835 - 390 pages
...most familiar to the reader. We extract passages, where poetic skill was most likely to be exerted. 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... | |
 | Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna - 1836 - 326 pages
...appear to have presented an obvious lesson, known and read of all men. The pagan Homer could tell us — Like leaves on trees the race of man is found ; Now green in youth, now withering on the ground. Holy scripture abounds with sublime and touching allusions to the same affecting memento of life's... | |
 | John Cole - 1837 - 326 pages
...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... | |
 | 1839 - 460 pages
...springing and the falling of the leaf, an apt comparison of the succession of the races of mankind : — " Like leaves on trees the race of man is found ; Now green in youth, now with'riug on the ground : Another race the following spring supplies, They fall successive, and successive... | |
 | 1839 - 460 pages
...and the falling of the leaf, an apt comparison of the succession of the races of mankind : — • " 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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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 rise; So Generations in their Course decay, So flourish these, when those... 
