...so hot, That it doth singe yourself. Succession of Human Beings. 5. Like leaves on trees, the life of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering...their course decay; So flourish these, when those have passed away. The Acquisition of Knowledge. 6. As up the tower of knowledge slow we rise, How wide...

...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...decay, So flourish these, when those are pass'd away ; K a simile which, as originating in the sympathies of our common nature, has found an echo in the...

...so hot, That it doth singe yourself. Succession of Human Beings. 5. Like leaves on trees, the life of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering...their course decay; So flourish these, when those have passed away. The Acquisition of Knowledge. 0. As up the tower of knowledge slow we rise, How wide...

...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...their course decay ; So flourish these, when those are passed away." POPE'S HOMER. This loss of verdure, together with the shortened days, the diminished...

...existence, the propagation of their species, their carcases will become available for man's use. " Another race the following spring supplies ; They...their course decay ; So flourish these, when those have passed away." By referring to the account given in this work of their natural history, the reader...

...breezes whisper through the grove." These are mementoes of our own mortality : " Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering...; So flourish these, when those are pass'd away." And most impressively is it said by the prophet : " We all do fade as a leaf." The woods have now many...

...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...their course decay, So flourish these, when those have pass'd away. From Hippolochus I came, The honour'd author of my birth and name; By his decree...

...Proud tyrants humbles and whole hosts o'erturns. Book VI. THE BACK 07 МА1Г. LIKE leaves on trees the Race of Man is found; Now green in youth, now withering...successive rise: So generations in their course decay, I So flourish these, when those have pass'd away. OLÀUCC8. From Hippolochus I came, The hononr'd author...

...whence I am, or who my sire," Replied the chief, "can Tydeus' son inquire? 180 Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering...bound — Argos the fair, for warlike steeds renown'd — 190 ^Eolian Sisyphus, with wisdom bless'd, In ancient time the happy walls possess'd, Then call'd...

...country walks and ways, giving occasion for the poetic moralist to say— " Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering...their course decay, So flourish these, when those are past away." Now the bees have finished their work of collecting sweets, and their hives must be well...