 | 1855 - 576 strani
...Blair nor Campbell, but from Oohn Norris ' of the seventeenth century : — ' How fading are the joys 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.' Can we doubt that these... | |
 | Where - 1855 - 86 strani
...SCHULZE. Visits like those of angels, short and far between. Grave. BLAIH. How fading are the joys 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. The Parting. JOHN NORRIS.... | |
 | 1855 - 504 strani
...Blair nor Campbell, but from ' John Norris ' of the seventeenth century : — 1 How fading are the joys we dote upon ! Like apparitions seen and gone ; But those which soonest take their flight Arc the most exquisite and strong ; Like angel's visits, short and bright, Mortality 's too weak to... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1856 - 378 strani
...stanza reada : '' How fading are the joys we dote upon ; Like apparitions seen and gone; But those who soonest take their flight, Are the most exquisite...bright ; Mortality's too weak to bear them long." Tennyson's love song runs thus,— '' How many full-sailed verse express, How many measured words adore... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1856 - 410 strani
...mention that his editors charge him with " a palpable plagiarism from Flatman, an obscure But those who soonest take their flight, Are the most exquisite...and bright; Mortality's too weak to bear them long." rhymer of Charles II. 7s time, in his sublime ode, ' The Dying Christian to his Soul.7" Many of his... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1856 - 384 strani
...stanza reads : ' ' How fading are the joys we dote upon ; Like apparitions seen and gone ; But those who soonest take their flight, Are the most exquisite...bright ; Mortality's too weak to bear them long." Tennyson's love song runs thus, — " How many full-sailed verse express, How many measured words adore... | |
 | George Willis - 1856 - 320 strani
...who died in 1711, in whose Transient Delights, occur these lines — How fading are the joys we doat upon Like apparitions seen and gone : But those which...flight Are the most exquisite and strong — Like Angel visits short and bright, Mortality's too weak to bear them long. Woburn, May 2. BB VV. A1IADIS... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1856 - 660 strani
...fair to look like you. JOHN NORRIS. 1657-1711. The Parting. How fading are the joys we dote upon l Like apparitions seen and gone ; But those which soonest...their flight Are the most exquisite and strong ; Like angel's visits, short and bright, Mortality 's too weak to bear them long. NATHANIEL LEE. 1692. Alexander... | |
 | 1856 - 696 strani
...Delights, occur these lines — How fading are the joys we doat upon Like apparitions seen und gone : jitit those which soonest take their flight Are the most exquisite and strong — Like Angel visits short and bright, Mortality's too weak to bear them long. Woburn, May 2. BBW AMADIS DE... | |
 | Richard Robert Madden - 1857 - 604 strani
...the higher regions, and held communion there with happy spirits : " How fading are the joyes we doat upon, Like apparitions seen and gone ; But those which...and bright, Mortality's too weak to bear them long." t * Miscellanies : Poems, Essays, &c. by John Norriss, MA, Rector of Newton, in Somersetshire, 2nd... | |
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How fading are the joys we dote upon ! Like apparitions seen and gone ; But those which soonest take their flight ^ Are the most exquisite and strong : Like angels 
