...form from our plantations, because it reminds us of the traasient nature of all terrestrial charms ? " Like leaves on trees, the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering on the ground ;" but the brightest and the fairest arc ever the first to fade before the...

...vows to seal, Ere I again, or one like me, explore These simple Annals of the VILLAGE POOR. (-) (1) [" Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering on the ground," &c. — POPE'S Homer.] (S) [" On the whole, the Parish Register deserves...

...grave that receives all—the grave that is never satisfied, and that never says, It is enough : thus, Like leaves on trees the 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...

...destiny of man. Like leaves on trees, says the first and the greatest of all 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 supplies, They fall successive, and successive...

...comes in upon us like & flood, and it: lui will li ft up a standard against him? GBNXRATIOnS ОТ MAN. 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 j They fall successive, and successive...

...be swept off some fine day and this pretty little globe peopled with a different race of beings. " Like leaves on trees, the race of man is found, Now green on high, now withering on the gronnd ; Another race the following spring supplies, Now fall successive,...

...succession of springing and falling leaves, an apt comparison for the fugitive races of men: — " 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 fall successive, and successive...

...also industrious." Atone time—at another time, are sometimes elegantly expressed by now—now; as, " Like leaves on trees, the race of man is found, Now green in youth, note withering on the ground." Here—there ; as, " Here plenty, there want." In one place—in another...

...is like the passing flower, That springs | to fall, and blossoms | but to die." Heroic Verse: — " Like leaves on trees | the race of man | is found ; Now | green in youth, now | withering on the ground." Octosyllabic Verse: — " The spacious firmament | on high, With all the...

...which, when her fury burns, Proud tyrants humbles and whoie hosts o'erturns. Book VI. THE BACE Or MAN. 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...