 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1860 - 522 pages
...80 Even at the haves Which He keen froit-wind of the waning year Hat sen tier' d on the forest toil. Like leaves on trees, the race of man is found— Now green in youth, now withering on the ground* tnother race the following spring supplies; They fall successive, and successive rise : So generations... | |
 | Elbridge Gerry Paige - 1857 - 362 pages
...yourselves anil for the mass in flia end Verily it is so. So mote it be! THE MORTALITY OF MAN. TEXT. — Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering on the ground. MY HEARERS — man is composed of as perishable material as the mushroom that springs up in a night... | |
 | William Mountford - 1858 - 536 pages
...feel best what we are to be, when we are what we ought to be. A gust of wind ! Down come the leaves ! Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering on the ground. So generations in their course decay, So perish these, when those have passed away. And long, long... | |
 | William Russell - 1858 - 312 pages
...like the passing flower, That springs | to fall, and blossoms | but to die." Heroic Verse:—"Like leaves on trees | the race of man | is found; Now | green in youth, now | withering on the ground." Octosyllabic Verse: —" The spacious firmament | on high, With all the blue ethereal sky, « And spangled... | |
 | Thulia Susannah Engall - 1859 - 412 pages
...the calm, mild day, as still such days will come, To call the squirrel and the bee from out their " Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering on the ground ; So gent-rationa in their turn decay ; So nourish these, when those have pass'd away." " We all do... | |
 | 1859 - 396 pages
...point the sapvessels have become obliterated. Thus deprived of all supply, they wither and perish. " Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering on the ground; So generations in their turn decay ; So flourish these when those have passed away." 380 ... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1860 - 420 pages
...Greek the celebrated lines of which Pope's translation is familiar to all : "'Like leaves on ti-ies the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering on the ground.' " Well, so they wish to see me. Did Ellinor, Lady Ellinor, say that, or her — her husband?" " Her... | |
 | Charles Richson - 1860 - 216 pages
...over the hill, like the distant thunder of the night, when the clouds burst on Cona. 6. As leaves of trees - the race of man is found ; Now green in youth, now with'ring on the ground. II. — TRANSPOSITIONS. The connexion of words inverted or transposed is generally... | |
 | 1861 - 356 pages
...crown Must tumble down, And in the dust, be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade. SHIRLTT. Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering on the ground ; So generations in their course decay, So perish these, when those have passed away. From the Greet... | |
 | J. H. Blunt - 1862 - 156 pages
...the years 1850-59 the average number was 1,576. THE CLtMATICAL DISEASES OP THE MONTH OF " Like leavea 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... 
