| Thomas Tregenna Biddulph - 1810 - 490 pages
...fever, a second of a consumption, a third of old age, a fourth in the field of battle, and a fifth by * 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... | |
| 1813 - 350 pages
...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 green in youth, now withering on the ground ; Another race the following spring supplies; They fall successive, and successive rise : So generations... | |
| George Miller - 1813 - 638 pages
...made happy, and always returns home Kof every uneasy sensation. Natural appearances in November. Like1 leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green' in youth, now with'ririg on the ground: Another race the following spring supplies.; They fall successive, and successive... | |
| Firdawsī - 1814 - 316 pages
...this is ROOSTUM whom iny eyes engage ! 1123 " Shall I, O grief! provoke my Father's rage ? Like Uares 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... | |
| New Church gen. confer - 1848 - 494 pages
...analogies to have rendered the verses in which they speak of them ' household words' for all time ! a ' Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now with'ring on the ground ; Another race the following eprlng supplies, They fall suecessive, and suecessive... | |
| Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - 1816 - 414 pages
...which though canst not see^ i All discord, harmony, not understood; . All partial 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 supplies, They fall successive, and successive... | |
| 1816 - 300 pages
...failing leaves, suggests to the reflecting mind an apt comparison for the 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 spring supplies, They fall successive, and... | |
| Richard Lobb - 1817 - 418 pages
...of 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 green in youth, now withering on the ground. Another race the following spring supplies, They fall successive, and successive rise ; So generations... | |
| Sir Richard Phillips - 1817 - 348 pages
...on the average, 25 millons must die and be born every year, ie 3000 every hour, or 50 every minute. 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... | |
| W M. Wade - 1817 - 662 pages
...strictly in unison N * with those expressed in the following lines of Pope's translation of Homer : 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... | |
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