 | Robert Chambers - 1902 - 864 strani
...poets — by Blair in The Grave, and Thomas Campbell in The Pleasures of Hope : How fading are the joys we dote upon ! Like apparitions seen and gone : But...their flight, Are the most exquisite and strong : Like angel visits short and bright ; Mortality's too weak to bear them long. a ' Lines to the Memory of... | |
 | Phineas Garrett - 1905 - 872 strani
...can bring no more From his own worth, dies bankrupt on the score. Clsaeeland. How fading are the joys we dote upon ! Like apparitions seen and gone ; But...and bright, Mortality's too weak to bear them long. Norris. In trance ecstatic may thy pangs be drowned; Bright clouds descend, and angels watch thee round.... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1903 - 1188 strani
...smiling, destructive man ! Theodosius. Act Hi. Sc. 2. JOHN NORRIS. 1G57-1711. How fading are the joys we dote upon ! Like apparitions seen and gone. But...strong, — Like angels' visits, short and bright ; * Mortality 's too weak to bear them long. The Parting. 1 See Beanrnont and Fletcher, page 197. 1... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1903 - 542 strani
...better expressed half a century earlier by John Norris, in his poem The Parting: How fading are the joys we dote upon ! Like apparitions seen and gone ; But...take their flight Are the most exquisite and strong, BLAKE, WILLIAM, a distinguished English poet, engraver, and painter, born at London, November 28, 1757;... | |
 | John Vance Cheney, Sir Charles G. D. Roberts, Charles Francis Richardson, Francis Hovey Stoddard, John Raymond Howard - 1904 - 930 strani
...angel-visits, few and far between. Pleasures of Hope, Pt. II. T. CAMBPELL. How fading are the joys we dote upon ! Like apparitions seen and gone ; But...and bright, Mortality's too weak to bear them long. The Parting. j. NORRIS. And these are joys, like beauty, but skin deep. Festus, Sc. A Village Feast.... | |
 | Hialmer Day Gould, Edward Louis Hessenmueller - 1904 - 920 strani
...grace. That 'tis a kind of heaven to be deluded by him. — Xatkonitl Lee. 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. — John Norrit, 1657-1711.... | |
 | 1905 - 218 strani
...greatest good which life can boast ? When Fate will have the bliss expire, How fading are the joys we dote upon Like apparitions seen and gone ! But...and strong : Like angels' visits, short and bright ; 1 Mortality's too weak to bear them long. No pleasure certainly is so divine As when two souls in... | |
 | Robert Maynard Leonard - 1909 - 636 strani
...robes of state, and clad Himself with thee. J. NORRIS. 702. LIKE ANGELS' VISITS How fading are the joys we dote upon : Like apparitions seen and gone. But...and bright ; Mortality's too weak to bear them long. J. NORRIS. 703. I DO NOT LOVE THEE I DO not love thee ! — no ! I do not love thee ! And yet when... | |
 | William S. Walsh - 1909 - 1112 strani
...Bemerton (1656-1711), who has the following lines in his poem "The Parting :" 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' visits, short and bright. Mortality's too weak... | |
 | André Henri Koszul - 1910 - 514 strani
...are the joys we dote upou ; Like apparitions seen and gone ; But those who soonest take their fligbt Are the most exquisite and strong, Like angels' visits...bright — Mortality's too weak to bear them long. The Partin9. (de Norris of Bemerton, un obscur poète religieux). The good he scorned Stalked off reluctant,... | |
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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 
