 | Henry Duncan - 1839 - 436 str.
...uninspired writers,* " ' Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering on the ground ; Another race the following spring...their course decay, So flourish these when those are passed away.' "t The sentiment of melancholy which the closing weeks of autumn thus forcibly impress... | |
 | Thomas Gage - 1840 - 526 str.
...Harris, by a fall from a horse, aged about 62 years. '* Like leaves on treea the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now with'ring on the ground, Another...their course decay: So flourish these, when those are past away." — POPE. "It's not the whole of life to live, Nor all of death to die." A GENEALOGICAL... | |
 | Thomas Gage - 1840 - 530 str.
...Harris, by a fall from a horse, aged about 62 years. " Like leaves on trees the race of man in found, Now green in youth, now with'ring on the ground, Another...So generations in their course decay : So flourish those, when those are past away." — Porz. " It 's not the whole of life to live, Nor all of death... | |
 | Thomas Wemyss - 1840 - 536 str.
...analogy, since both serve for a covering. Homer beautifully compares the human race to leaves, 11.6, 146: Another race the following spring supplies, They fall...their course decay, So flourish these, when those are past away. POPE. Job, deprecating the divine inflictions, uses the same simile, xiii. 25, " Wilt thou... | |
 | Conrad Wright - 1986 - 164 str.
...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 - 1992 - 166 str.
...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;...their course decay; So flourish these, when those are passed away. NOTES [I] Cf. Pedersen (1987: 75 and 1988: 44). [2] Cf Rabin (1958) and Pedersen (1988:... | |
 | Arthur Jones - 1993 - 288 str.
...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,...their course decay; So flourish these when those are pas'd away. 1785. Sheriff. Hertfordshire. William Phillimore of Aldenham. PETER, THE WILD BOY February... | |
 | George Hochfield - 2004 - 438 str.
...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 - 2005 - 325 str.
...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...their course decay; So flourish these, when those are past away." 1 The leaves of trees were, and are, often utilised in various ways for many different... | |
 | William T. Alexander - 1887 - 654 str.
...MODERN LIFE IN 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...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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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... 
