 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...  Queen Mab - Strona 72autor: Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1831 - Liczba stron: 120Pełny widok - Informacje o książce
 | Alexander Pope - 1830 - Liczba stron: 500
...low green in youth, now withering on the ground: Another race the following spring supplies ; Phey nny ray. I lau nch'd my spear, and with a sudden wound Transpierced 3ut if thou still persist to search my birth. Then hear a tale that fills the spacious earth : A city... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1831 - Liczba stron: 130
...man is found, They fall successive, and successive rise: Another race the following spring supplies; So generations in their course decay; So flourish these, when those are past away. Papers Homer. V. PAGE 28. The mob of peasants, nobles, priests, and kings. When the wide ocean maddening... | |
 | John Evans - 1831 - Liczba stron: 322
...— Like leaves on trees the race of man it found, -Vow green in youth, now withering on the ground ; Another RACE the following spring supplies ; They fall successive, and successive rise : So GENERATION* in their course decay, So flourish these, when those are past away ! The succession of... | |
 | William Hone - 1832 - Liczba stron: 874
...greatest of all uninspired writers, — Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now greca ÍD ow bold ; Because the tides will higher rise Than...our tears Bring floods of grief to Whitehall stairs. coarse decay ; So flourish these, when those are pass'd away ;* a simile which, as originating in the... | |
 | Conrad Wright - 1986 - Liczba stron: 164
...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 - 1992 - Liczba stron: 166
...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 green in youth, now withering on the ground; Another race the following spring supplies; They fall successive, and successive rise; So generations... | |
 | Arthur Jones - 1993 - Liczba stron: 288
...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, now withering on the ground; Another race the following spring supplies, They fall successive, and successive rise. So generations... | |
 | George Hochfield - 2004 - Liczba stron: 438
...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 - 2005 - Liczba stron: 325
...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 green in youth, now withering on the ground ; Another race the following spring supplies ; They fall successive and successive rise : So generations... | |
 | William T. Alexander - 1887 - Liczba stron: 654
...AFEICA. 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...successive rise : So, generations in their course decay; So nourish these when those are past away. — Homer. " IpHE human race is known to consist of different... | |
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