| 1828
...they hoped to dwell with their God and Saviour. TRANSIENT DELIGHTS. How fading are the joys we dole upon, Like apparitions seen and gone : But those which...visits, short and bright ; Mortality's too weak to beat them long. JOHN NORRIS, 1700. 376 ON SANCTIFICATION. SIR— Your kindness in inserting a few remarks... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 sidor
...stolen) by two poeis — Blair, author of 'The Grave,' and Thomas Campbell (' Pleasures of Hope '). angel visits short and bright. ; Mortality 's too weak to bear them long. The Parting. In another piece... | |
| 1837 - 830 sidor
...joys wo dote upon, Like apparitions seen and gone: But those which soonest lake their flight, Are Ihc most exquisite and strong. Like angels' visits, short and bright; Mortality's too weak to bear them lung. And he gives us the same thought again in his Elegy on his Niece: Angels, as 'tis but... | |
| Thomas Sherman - 1836 - 134 sidor
...raise virtues out of vanity ; so shalt thou lay up treasure in heaven. How fading are the joys we doat upon, Like apparitions seen and gone : But those which soonest take their night, Are the most exquisite and strong, Like angels' visits short and bright ; Mortality's too weak... | |
| 1837 - 790 sidor
...short stanza in which Norris gives us his line, is very pleasing, and worth quoting. It runs thus: How fading are the joys we dote upon, Like apparitions seen and gone : But those which soonest take ihcir flight, Are the mo?l exquisite and islronc. And he gives us the same thought again in bis Elegy... | |
| John Holland - 1843 - 402 sidor
...known sentiment first repeated by Blair, and afterwards by Campbell : — " How fading are the joyes we dote upon, Like apparitions seen and gone : But...their flight, Are the most exquisite and strong, Like Angel's visits, short and bright ; Mortality's too weak to bear them long." He has also another passage,... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 sidor
...Bemerton, vrlio, prior to Blair, wrote a poem, ' The Farting,' which contains the following verse : — mbers( who soonest take their flight, Are the most exquisite and strong, Lite angeltf vails ¡hört and bright;... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 sidor
...Bemerton, who, prior to Blair, wrote a poem, ' The Parting,' which contains the following verse : — who soonest take their flight, Are the most exquisite and strong, Like (inr/c№ visite short find... | |
| William Beattie - 1849 - 520 sidor
...thought first noticed in Blair, is not an improvement upon the original conception in Norris — " How fading are the joys we dote upon, Like apparitions...their flight, Are the most exquisite and strong, Like ongeFs msits short and bright — Mortality's too weak to bear them long." Again, in the Elegy on his... | |
| William Hanna - 1850 - 576 sidor
...phrase neither from Bluir nor Campbell, but from ' John Norris ' of the seventeenth century : — ' How fading are the joys we dote upon ! Like apparitions...and strong; Like angels' visits, short and bright, Mortality 's too weak to bear them long.' Can we doubt that these lines were actually inspired by such... | |
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