 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1831 - 132 pages
...35. Even as the leaves Which the keen frost wind of the waning year Has scattered on the forest'soil. Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth now withering on the ground j Another race the following spring supplies; They fall successive, and successive rise : So generations... | |
 | James Campbell (teacher of English.) - 1832 - 274 pages
...man. This quick succession of springing and falling leaves has been thus beautifully applied by Homer: Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now...supplies; They fall successive, and successive rise; So generations in their course decay, So flourish these, when those are pass'd away. The loss of verdure,... | |
 | William Hone - Almanacs, English - 1832 - 852 pages
...destiny of man. Like leaves on trees, — says the first and the greatest of all uninspired writers, — Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now...supplies ; They fall successive, and successive rise : So generations in their course decay ; So flourish these, when those arc pass'd »way ;* a simile... | |
 | Thomas Gillet - 1832 - 128 pages
...like a flower." The ancient uninspired poets also illustrate the same subject by similar figures — " 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... | |
 | Conrad Wright - Religion - 1986 - 164 pages
...doctrines are fleeting as the leaves on the trees. They "Are found Now green in youth, now withered on the ground; Another race the following spring supplies; They fall successive and successive rise." Like the clouds of the sky, they are here to-day; to-morrow, all swept off and vanished; while Christianity... | |
 | Jørgen Erik Nielsen - Dansk sprog - 1992 - 166 pages
...Alexander Pope, words which, as Horace saw, are no less true about generations of words than of men: Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now...supplies; They fall successive, and successive rise; So generations in their course decay; So flourish these, when those are passed away. NOTES [I] Cf.... | |
 | Arthur Jones - History - 1993 - 288 pages
...FOR JOSEPH CHAPMAN, A TALLOW-CHANDLER, IN THE CHURCH-YARD AT BISHOP STORTFORD, HERTS. Like leaves of trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth,...supplies, They fall successive, and successive rise. So generations in their course decay; So flourish these when those are pas'd away. 1785. Sheriff. Hertfordshire.... | |
 | George Hochfield - Literary Collections - 2004 - 438 pages
...doctrines are fleeting as the leaves on the trees. They — are found Now green in youth, now withered on the ground: Another race the following spring supplies; They fall successive, and successive rise. Like the clouds of the sky, they are here today; tomorrow, all swept off and vanished, while Christianity... | |
 | Alexander Porteous - Social Science - 2005 - 325 pages
...table-book will make." LEAVK OF TRIES Homer compares the race of mankind to leaves upon a tree thus : " Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now...supplies ; They fall successive and successive rise : So generations in their course decay; So flourish these, when those are past away." 1 The leaves... | |
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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... 
