 | John Cole - 1837 - 326 sayfa
...cultivated. TIMBER TREES. " 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 pass'd away." Homer, as tr. by Pope. the beautiful flowers of the garden, and the trees themselves... | |
 | Robert Daly Walker - 1838 - 284 sayfa
...writers. Homer has made the comparison; which is thus translated by Pope: " Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering...fall successive, and successive rise. So generations on their course decay, So flourish these, when those are passed away." Leaves resemble man in their... | |
 | 1839 - 460 sayfa
...of mankind : — " Like leaves on trees the race of man is found ; Now green in youth, now with'riug on the ground : Another race the following spring...So generations, in their course decay, So .flourish those, when these are pass'd away." The autumnal tint occasioned by the loss of verdure, together with... | |
 | Henry Duncan - 1839 - 436 sayfa
...leaves on trees,' says the first and greatest of all uninspired writers,* " ' Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering...their course decay, So flourish these when those are passed away.' "t The sentiment of melancholy which the closing weeks of autumn thus forcibly impress... | |
 | 1839 - 460 sayfa
...mankind : — • " 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...So generations, in their course decay, So flourish those, when tbese are pass'd away." The autumnal tint occasioned by the loss of verdure, together with... | |
 | Thomas Gage - 1840 - 526 sayfa
...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 - 536 sayfa
...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 WEMYSS - 1840 - 560 sayfa
...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 Gage - 1840 - 530 sayfa
...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 sayfa
...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...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 echo in the... | |
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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... 
