 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 Works of the English Poets: Pope's Homer - Page 195edited by - 1779Full view - About this book
 | New year - 1747 - 72 pages
...Congregations ; Searchers, Shroud-Maker st Coffin-Maker^, Sextons,Grave.s^Clerks^ #W UNDERTAKERS, &c. &C; Like Leaves on Trees the Race of Man is found, Now green in Tenth, nova with' ring on the Ground, Another Race the following Spring fupplies , They fall fucce/vue,... | |
 | Homerus - 1756 - 254 pages
...copy of What, or from whence I am, or who my 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... | |
 | Homer - 1760 - 382 pages
...death. What, or from whence I am, or who my fire, ( Reply 'd the chief) can Ty dens' fon enquire ? 180 Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now with'ring on the ground ., Thou wilt bring me foon To that new world of light and blifs, among The... | |
 | Edward Bysshe - 1762 - 358 pages
...and Mills, Sometimes with lunatick Bans, fometimes with Pray'rs, Inforce their Chanty. Shak. K. Lear. Like Leaves on Trees the Race of Man is found, Now green in Youth, now with'ring on the Ground : Anothej Race the foil'wing Spring fupplies; They fall fucceflive and fucceffive... | |
 | William Dodd - 1764 - 330 pages
...tranflation. • , What, or from whence I am, or who my 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... | |
 | John Ogilvie - 1769 - 618 pages
...antiquity : O»j Treg/ ^uAAwi" ytvtrij totn fe xcti otyfguv, &c. Like leaves on trees the race of men is found, Now green in youth, now withering on the...Another race the following fpring fupplies, They fall fticceflive, and fucceffive rife j So generations in their courfe decay. POPE," The Ancients in general... | |
 | Homerus, William Holwell - 1776 - 392 pages
...— : . 260. What, or from whence I am, or who my 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... | |
 | Thomas Whyte - 1778 - 100 pages
...hath been related in thefe Memoirs, fufficiently 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... | |
 | George Colman - 1787 - 370 pages
...fixth book of the Iliad, " comparing the generations of men to the annual «« fucceffion of leaves. " Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, " Now...Another race the following fpring fupplies, " They fall fucceffive, and fucceffive rife: " So generations in their tums decay; " So flourilh tbefe, when thofe... | |
 | George Colman - 1787 - 360 pages
...the annual '' fuccefiion of leave?. tra fun, tct(e$ ^'myiynirtei ff .;. i y'«n. «/*s» fvu, i <?' " Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, " Now...on the ground ; " Another race the following fpring (applies, '• They fall fucceffive, and fucceffive rife ; " So generations in their turns decay ;... | |
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