 | Homerus - 1756 - 254 pages
...fire, lReply'd the chief) can Tydtue ' fon inquire ? 180 Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now with'ring on the ground; Another race the following fpring fupplies, They fall fucceffive, and fucceffive rife* V. 181. Like leaves on trees.] There is... | |
 | William Dodd - 1764 - 330 pages
...fire, (Reply'd the chief ) can Tydeus" fon enquire ? Like leaves on trees, the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now with'ring on the ground ; Another race the following fpring fupplies, They fall fuccefllve, and fucceflive rife : So generations in their courfe decay,... | |
 | 1765 - 416 pages
...ftrength df car-borne Ofcar ? Fingal himfelf paffed Like leaves on trees the race of men are found, Now green in youth, now with'ring on the ground ; Another race the following fpring fapplies ; They fall fucceffive, and fucceffive rife. PoPE. * Ryno, the fon of Fingal, who was... | |
 | Homerus, William Holwell - 1776 - 392 pages
...fire, (Reply'd the chief) can Tydeus' fon enquire ? Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now with'ring on the ground } Another race the following fpring fupplies ; They fall fucceffive, and fucceffive rife : So generations in their couffe decay... | |
 | Thomas Whyte - 1778 - 100 pages
...verifies the following verfes of the celebrated Pope. Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now with'ring on the ground, Another race the following fpringfupplies, They fall fuccejjive, andfuccejfi-ue rife ; So generations in their courfe decay, thcfe,... | |
 | emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus - 1792 - 392 pages
...from grief or fear. Such is that of the poet: " Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, . ct Now green in youth, now with'ring on the " ground: " Another race the following fpring fupplies, " They fall fuccefllve, and fucceflive rife." POPE. Your children are but leaves;... | |
 | Robert Proud - 1797 - 522 pages
...more, than what is intimated by this fimilitude? viz. " Like leaves on trees the race of man is found; Now green in youth, now with'ring on the ground; • Another race the following fpri'ng fupplies; They fall fucceffive, and iucceffive rife: So generations, in their courfe, decay;... | |
 | 1800 - 704 pages
...180—186. Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now with'ring on the ground j Another race the following spring supplies, They fall...their course decay, So flourish these, when those are past away. II. XIV. T. 243— 248. She said. With awe divine, the queen of love Obey'd the sister and... | |
 | 1803 - 250 pages
...force imprifon'd winds to bring 'em near.—Dryden. LIKE leaves on trees, the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now with'ring on the ground, Another race the foll'wing fpring fupplics; They fall fucctffive, and fucceffive rife: So generations in then courfe... | |
 | Poetry - 1806 - 192 pages
...the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now with'ring on the ground; c Another 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 wintry famine rous'd, from all the tract Of horrid mountains which... | |
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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... 
