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... The Year Book of Daily Recreation and Information - Страница 1145написао/ла William Hone - 1832 - 1643 страницаПуни преглед - О овој књизи
| 1822 - 722 страница
...Homer are the following lines (I quote from memory, and may not be exactly correct) : " Like leaves of trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering on the ground ; The following spring another race supplies, They fall successive, and successive rise." In the Apocryphal... | |
| Morgan Williams - 1822 - 728 страница
...bless our dying breath ; Ob, Reader ! then iu Christ believe, Who every blessing else will give. IX. 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 successive... | |
| Richard Carlile - 1823 - 816 страница
...following lines : Like leaves on trees the race of men is found, Now green in eartli now withering <jn the ground, Another race the following spring supplies;...in their course decay, So flourish these when those are past away. POPE'S HOMER. Religion seems to overthrow every thing that philosophy would support,... | |
| John Pierpont - 1823 - 492 страница
...beings. Like leaves on trees the life of man is found, Now green in youth, now wfth'ring on the ground 5 Another race the following spring supplies, They fall...their course decay ; So flourish these, when those have past away30 THE AMERICAN [/,««<m 3, Time never returns. Mark how it snows ! how fast the valley... | |
| Henry Phillips - 1823 - 358 страница
...inhaling these dangerous particles. The foliage of the ash tree changes to a lemon colour in October. " 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 successive... | |
| Thomas Ignatius M. Forster - 1824 - 846 страница
...fall, remind us of the following lines of Pope's Homer, of which Johnson used to be very fond • — Like leaves on trees, the race of man is found Now...in their course decay, So flourish these when those are passed away. Table of the Mean Equation of Time. M. s. October 1st, from the time by the Dial subt.... | |
| Maria Hack - 1824 - 412 страница
...point of death: two rival brothers again advance their claims to the throne about to become vacant. " Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now...their course decay; So flourish these, when those are pass'd away •." The leaves of the returning spring, resemble those of other years; but not so... | |
| George Wentworth - 1824 - 378 страница
...these walls supplied, Deserted by the muse when her sweet Shakspeare died. THE STATE OF MEN COMPARED. Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now with' ring on the ground ; Another race the coming spring supplies, They fall successive, and successive... | |
| Benjamin Maund - 1824 - 260 страница
...yearly leaves, that now with beauty crown'd, Smile on the sun ; now, wither on the ground." Again — "Another race the following spring supplies, They fall successive, and successive rise." Our present fugitive-flowered little shrub is very ornamental, and bears ordinary winters without protection.... | |
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...the falling leaf rustling in the autumnal blast, which speaks to us affectingly of our mortality : " Like leaves on trees, the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering on the ground." Remember, then, to WHOM you belong, your Creator — "the Lord thy God." Is he thine? Are you not only... | |
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