 | John Bowdler - 1821 - 510 страници
...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.... | |
 | Alexander Jamieson - 1821 - 448 страници
...ascertained. Now green in youth, now withering on the ground. Like leaves on trees, the race of man Is found; Another race the following spring supplies, They fall successive, and successive rise; So flourish these, when those are past away. So generations in their course decay, POPE. Effieacy of Water... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1822 - 356 страници
...forest- walks, at every rising gale, Roll wide the wither'd waste, and whistle bleak. AUTUMN, 1. 987. These are occurrences which so strongly appeal to...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... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1822 - 352 страници
...forest-walks, at every rising gale, Roll wide the wither'd waste, and whistle bleak. AUTUMN, 1. 987These are occurrences which so strongly appeal to our feelings,...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... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 304 страници
...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... | |
 | Homerus - 1822 - 320 страници
...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... | |
 | Thomas Gosden - 1822 - 80 страници
...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... | |
 | 1816 - 1004 страници
...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... | |
 | Rev. W. Hutton - 1822 - 306 страници
...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... | |
 | Richard Carlile - 1822 - 692 страници
...vice thsit does the soul debase, For vice is hell, and virtue peace, Then take, whic.h you prefejr. " Like leaves on trees, the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering on the ground ; They fall successive, and successive rise. Another race the following spring supplies, So flourish.... | |
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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... 
