 | 1826 - 722 lehte
...age, Magilligan, Aug. It. J. GRAHAM. AN EPISTLE TO A FRIEND IN THI COUNTY or LIMERICK. " Likeleaves on trees the race of man is found ; Now green in youth, now withering on the ground} Another race thefollou-ing race supplies, They fall successive, and successive... | |
 | New year - 1747 - 72 lehte
...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 lehte
...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...fupplies, They fall fucceffive, and fucceffive rife* V. 181. Like leaves on trees.] There is a noble gravity in the beginning of this fpeech of Glaucus,... | |
 | William Dodd - 1764 - 330 lehte
...the fpeech of Glaucus, Iliad, B. VI. v. 181, which I give my reader in Mr. Pope's tranflation. • , What, or from whence I am, or who my fire, (Reply'd...Another race the following fpring fupplies, They fall fuccefllve, and fucceflive rife : So generations in their courfe decay, So flourifh thefe, when thofe... | |
 | 1765 - 416 lehte
...Stood the ftrength df car-borne Ofcar ? Fingal himfelf paffed Like leaves on trees the race of men are found, Now green in youth, now with'ring on the ground ; Another race the following fpring fapplies ; They fall fucceffive, and fucceffive rife. PoPE. * Ryno, the fon of Fingal, who was killed... | |
 | John Ogilvie - 1769 - 342 lehte
...&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,...fucceffive, and fucceffive rife>; So generations in their courfe decay. POPE.' The Ancients in general feem to have entertained a very high opinion of his Genius... | |
 | Thomas Whyte - 1778 - 100 lehte
...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...with'ring on the ground, Another race the following fpringfupplies, They fall fuccejjive, andfuccejfi-ue rife ; So generations in their courfe decay, thcfe,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 396 lehte
...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 green in youth, now withering on the ground ; Another race the following fpring fi:pplies ; They fall fucceffive, and fucceffive... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 408 lehte
...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 in youth, now withering on the ground ; Another race the following fpring fupplies ; They fall fucceffive, and fucceffive... | |
 | George Colman - 1787 - 370 lehte
...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 green in youth, now withering on the ground ; " Another race the following fpring fupplies, " They fall fucceffive, and... | |
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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... 
