 | William Hone - 1832 - 852 pages
...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 arc pass'd »way ;* a simile which, as originating in the sympathies of our common nature, has found... | |
 | Thomas Gillet - 1832 - 128 pages
...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...their course decay, So flourish these when those are pass'd away." Saint Paul explains the doctrine of the resurrection by the vegetation of the seed. Eternity... | |
 | John Evans - 1834 - 306 pages
...kingdom, and which has been the subject of general admiration — Like leaves on trees the race <tf man is found, Now green in youth, now withering on...their course decay, So flourish these, when those are past away ! The succession of the generations of mankind from the commencement of the world to the... | |
 | Corph - 1834 - 514 pages
...unwaith, wedi hyny bod bam.— HEB. ix. 27. t " Like leaves of trees, the race of man is found, Once green in youth, now withering on the ground ; Another...their course decay, So flourish these, when those are past away. 78 CORPH Y GAINGC. 0 daw awel — blin dywydd, Ami groes i'w feroes a fydd ; Nes cyraeddyd... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1835 - 122 pages
...40. Even as the leaves Which the keen frost-wind of the waning year Has scatter'd on the forest soil. Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now...course decay ;, So flourish these, when those are past away. Pope's Humrr. O PAGE 41 The mob of peasants, nobles, priests, and kings. When the wide ocean... | |
 | William Cowper, William Hayley - 1835 - 354 pages
...honour of introducing this momentous question, in which the interests of humanity and justice were " Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now...successive rise : So generations in their course decay, So nourish these, when those have pass'd away." Pope's Version. so deeply involved, was reserved for William... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1835 - 484 pages
...succession of human beings. Like leaves on trees the life of man is found, Now green in youth, now with'ring on the ground ; Another race the following spring...their course decay ; So flourish these, when those have past away. Time never returns. Mark how it snows ! how fast the valley fills, And the sweet groves... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835 - 390 pages
...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...successive rise : So generations in their course decay ; So nourish these, when those are past away. Pope's Version, book vi. line 181. For as the leaves, so springs... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835 - 360 pages
...honour of introducing this momentous question, in which the interests of humanity and justice were " Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now...their course decay, So flourish these, when those have pass'd away." Pope's Version. so deeply involved, was reserved for William Wilberforce, Esq. How... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836 - 526 pages
...honour of introducing this momentous question, in which the interests of humanity and justice were " Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now...successive rise : So generations in their course decay, So nourish these, when those have pass'd away." Pope's Version. so deeply involved, was reserved for William... | |
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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... 
