 | 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...their course 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,... | |
 | 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
...bed of death; 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...their course 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.... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1822 - 356 pages
...and destiny 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...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... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 304 pages
...of death. ' 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...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... | |
 | Thomas Gosden - 1822 - 80 pages
...quick 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...their course decay, So flourish these, when those are past away. POPE'S HOMER. This loss of verdure, together with the shortened days, the diminishing warmth,... | |
 | Homerus - 1822 - 320 pages
...of dealh. " 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...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... | |
 | 1816 - 1004 pages
...our times, 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...their course 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... | |
 | Rev. W. Hutton - 1822 - 306 pages
...comparison for the fugitive generation of men.: — " Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Kow green in youth, now withering on the ground ; Another...So generations in their course decay, So flourish tliese when those are passed away !" The loss of verdure, together with the shortened .days, the diminishing... | |
 | Morgan Williams - 1822 - 728 pages
...the ground ; Another race the following Spring supplies, They fall successive, and successive rise r So generations in their course decay, So flourish these, when those are past away. General Epitaphs of eight Lines each. I. By slow degrees experience we attain, Abstruse... | |
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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... 
