 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 Gentleman's Magazine - Page 2931815Full view - About this book
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1842 - 230 pages
...Even a^ the leaves Which the keen front wind of the waning year Has icat ered on the forest soil. . f They fall successive, and successive rise: So generations...decay; So flourish these, when those are past away. Pope's Homer. V. PAGE 37. The mob of peasants, nobles, priests, and kings. When the wide ocean maddening... | |
 | 1842 - 538 pages
...race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering on the ground. Another race the following age supplies; They fall successive, and successive rise...their course decay ; So flourish these when those have passed away. In conclusion, as the text instructs us in the nature, certainty, and universality... | |
 | Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, George Ripley - 1842 - 642 pages
...fleeting as the leaves on the trees. They " Are found Now green in youth, now wither'd 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... | |
 | Theodore Parker - 1843 - 394 pages
...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... | |
 | 1844 - 276 pages
...— 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...their course decay, So flourish these, when those are pass'd away ; K a simile which, as originating in the sympathies of our common nature, has found an... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - 1845 - 330 pages
...found, Now, green in youth, now, withering on the ground. Another race the following spring supplies j They fall successive, and successive rise : So — generations — in their course decay, Sa — flourish these, when those— лп passed away. Proverb». 1. It is well not only to seem pure... | |
 | 1846 - 544 pages
...— " Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now witheriug on the ground. Another race the following spring supplies ; They...their course decay ; So flourish these, when those are passed away." POPE'S HOMER. This loss of verdure, together with the shortened days, the diminished... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - 1842 - 316 pages
...5. Like leaves on trees, the life of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering on the ground ; Another race the following spring supplies, They fall...their course decay; So flourish these, when those have passed away. The Acquisition of Knowledge. 0. As up the tower of knowledge slow we rise, How wide... | |
 | Thomas Edward Eden - 1846 - 152 pages
...existence, the propagation of their species, their carcases will become available for man's use. " Another race the following spring supplies ; They...their course decay ; So flourish these, when those have passed away." By referring to the account given in this work of their natural history, the reader... | |
 | 1847 - 490 pages
..." 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...their course decay ; So flourish these, when those are pass'd away." And most impressively is it said by the prophet : " We all do fade as a leaf." The woods... | |
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