 | Homerus - 1807 - 568 pages
...death. What, or from -whence I am, or who my sire (Reply'd the chief), can Tydens' son inquire? ISO Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now...successive rise: So generations in their course decay ; 185 So flourish these, when those are past away. Bot if thou still persist to search my birth, Then... | |
 | John Bell - 1807 - 472 pages
...son inquire? 180 * Lake leaves on trees the race of man is found, 1 Now green in youth, now with'ring on the ground; « Another race the following spring...successive rise; ' So generations in their course decay, 185 f So flourish these, when those are pass'd away. ' But if thou still persist to search my hirth,... | |
 | Homerus - 1808 - 574 pages
...death. What, or from whence I am, or who my sire, ( Reply id the chief) can Tydens' son enquire ? 180 Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now...successive rise : So generations in their course decay; [185 So flourish these, when those are past away. But if thou still persist to search my hirth, Then... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 770 pages
...Approach, and enter the dark gates of Death." " What, or from whence I am, or who my sire," (Rtply'd the chief) " can Tydeus* son inquire? Like leaves...successive rise : So generations in their course decay; So nourish these, when those are past away. But if thou still persist to search my birth, Then hear a... | |
 | Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - 1816 - 414 pages
...evil, universal good. 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 have past away. Reason's whole pleasure, all the- joys of sense, Lie in three words, Health, Peace,... | |
 | 1816 - 300 pages
...fugitive generations of men ; " Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, . Now green in youth, DOW withering on the ground ; Another race the following...successive, and successive rise ; So generations in their eeupse decay, So flourish tkesc. when those are passed away !*' The loss of verdure, together with... | |
 | Robert Knight (vicar of Tewkesbury.) - 1818 - 142 pages
...i' <* IL. lib. vi. 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. CAMPANILE at Tewkesbury, pulled down 1817See p. 30.... | |
 | 1819 - 188 pages
...applied by Homer. 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 succrsnve rise; So generations In their course decay, So flourish these, when those are pass'd away.... | |
 | 492 pages
...springing and falling leaves, a very apposite comparison for the transitory generations of men : — Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now...successive rise; So generations in their course decay, Bo flourish these, when those are past away. CbcjFamilg jfrienD. As the damp and foggy weather, now... | |
 | Alexander Jamieson - 1821 - 448 pages
...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... | |
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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... 
