 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...  Tinsley's Magazine - Side 3301882Fuld visning - Om denne bog
 | 1733 - 750 sider
...following beautiful Comparifon, preaches the fame Doclrine. . , , ve. on trees' th'e««of »tfrisfcund, green in youth, now withering on the ground : Another race- the following fpring fupplia, TheV fall I'uccelTive, and liioceflive rile: fio^^n.. in their courfe decay, So Hourifii... | |
 | John Ogilvie - 1769 - 342 sider
...as vouchers for their antiquity : ay f' guv, &c. J^. £. ' Like Like leaves on trees the race of men is found, Now green in youth, now withering on the ground. Another race the following fpring fupplies, They fall fucceffive, and fucceffive rife>; So generations in their courfe decay.... | |
 | John Ogilvie - 1769 - 618 sider
...antiquity : O«j B-jg/ ^u^Awji ytvetij roai ft xow etyfguv, &c. td* Like leaves on trees the raee of men is found, Now green in youth, now withering on the ground. Another race the following fpring fupplies, They fall fucceflive, and fuccefllve rife ; So generations in their courfe decay.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 396 sider
...death. What, or from whence I am, or who my fire, (Reply'd the chief) can Tydeus' fon enquire ? 180 Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now...withering on the ground ; Another race the following fpring fi:pplies ; They fall fucceffive, and fucceffive rife : So generations in their courfe decay... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 408 sider
...What, or from whence I am, or who my fire, (Reply'd the chief) can Tydeus' fon enquire ? 1Sa ILike leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green...withering on the ground ; Another race the following fpring fupplies ; They fall fucceffive, and fucceffive rife.: So generations in their courfe decay... | |
 | George Colman - 1787 - 370 sider
...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...withering on the ground ; " Another race the following fpring fupplies, " They fall fucceffive, and fucceffive rife: " So generations in their tums decay;... | |
 | 1788 - 404 sider
...quick fucceffion of fpringing and falling leaves, an apt comparifon for the fugitive races of men. Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now...withering on the ground. Another race the following fpring fupplies, They fall fuccefiii'c, and fucccflive rife ; So generations in their courfe decay,... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 1795 - 1104 sider
...of death. What, or from whi;.ce I am, or who my fire, (Reply'd the chief) can Tydeus' fon inquire ? Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now...withering on the ground ; Another race the following fpring fupplies ; They fall fucceflive and fuccefiive rife : So generations in their courfe decay ;... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 496 sider
...death. What, or from whence I am, or v»no my fire, (Reply'd the chief) can Tydeus' fon enquire ? i So Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now...withering on the ground; Another race the following fpring fiipplies j They fall fucceffive, and fucceflive rife: So generations in their courfe decay;... | |
 | 1800 - 704 sider
...180—186. Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now with'ring on the ground j Another race the following spring supplies, They fall...successive, and successive rise; So generations in their course decay, So flourish these, when those are past away. II. XIV. T. 243— 248. She said. With awe... | |
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