 | Thomas Gage - 1840 - 526 pages
...about 62 years. '* Like leaves on treea the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now with'ring on the ground, Another race the following spring supplies,...their course decay: So flourish these, when those are past away." — POPE. "It's not the whole of life to live, Nor all of death to die." A GENEALOGICAL... | |
 | THOMAS WEMYSS - 1840 - 560 pages
...since both serve for a covering. Homer beautifully compare's the human race to leaves, II. 6, 146: Another race the following spring supplies, They fall...their course decay, So flourish these, when those are past away. POPE. Job, deprecating the divine inflictions, uses the same simile, xiii. 25, " Wilt thou... | |
 | Thomas Wemyss - 1840 - 536 pages
...analogy, since both serve for a covering. Homer beautifully compares the human race to leaves, 11.6, 146: Another race the following spring supplies, They fall...their course decay, So flourish these, when those are past away. POPE. Job, deprecating the divine inflictions, uses the same simile, xiii. 25, " Wilt thou... | |
 | Thomas Gage - 1840 - 530 pages
...about 62 years. " Like leaves on trees the race of man in found, Now green in youth, now with'ring on the ground, Another race the following spring supplies,...So generations in their course decay : So flourish those, when those are past away." — Porz. " It 's not the whole of life to live, Nor all of death... | |
 | William Hone - 1841 - 840 pages
...says the first and the greatest of all uninspired writers, — Like leaves on trees the race of man U found, Now green in youth, now withering on the ground...their course decay ; So flourish these, when those are pass'd away j* a simile which, as originating in the sympathies of our common nature, has found an... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - 1849 - 316 pages
...so hot, That it doth singe yourself. Succession of Human Beings. 5. Like leaves on trees, the life of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering...their course decay; So flourish these, when those have passed away. The Acquisition of Knowledge. 6. As up the tower of knowledge slow we rise, How wide... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1842 - 230 pages
...Even a^ the leaves Which the keen front wind of the waning year Has icat ered on the forest soil. . f They fall successive, and successive rise: So generations...their course decay; So flourish these, when those are past away. Pope's Homer. V. PAGE 37. The mob of peasants, nobles, priests, and kings. When the wide... | |
 | 1842 - 538 pages
...race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering on the ground. Another race the following age supplies; They fall successive, and successive rise...their course decay ; So flourish these when those have passed away. In conclusion, as the text instructs us in the nature, certainty, and universality... | |
 | 1844 - 276 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 are pass'd away ; K a simile which, as originating in the sympathies of our common nature, has found an... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - 1845 - 330 pages
...found, Now, green in youth, now, withering on the ground. Another race the following spring supplies j They fall successive, and successive rise : So — generations — in their course decay, Sa — flourish these, when those— лп passed away. Proverb». 1. It is well not only to seem pure... | |
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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... 
