...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...their flight, Are the most exquisite and strong. Like angels' visits, short and bright ; Mortality's too weak to beat them long. JOHN NORRIS, 1700. 376 ON...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...angels, short and far between." and Blair took it from Norris of Bemerton, v. Poems, p. 21 : — " How fading are the joys we dote upon, Like apparitions...their flight Are the most exquisite and strong, Like anyels' visits, short and bright, Mortality's too weak to beur them long." Some one took the unnecessary...

...known sentiment first repeated by Blair, and afterwards by Campbell : — " How fading are the joyes we dote upon, Like apparitions seen and gone : But...bright ; Mortality's too weak to bear them long." He has also another passage, which Blair has very palpably imitated, in allusion to the mysterious...

...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...

...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;...

...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...

...phrase neither from Bluir nor Campbell, but from ' John Norris ' of the seventeenth century : — ' How fading are the joys we dote upon ! Like apparitions...their flight, Are the most exquisite and strong; Like angels' visits, short and bright, Mortality 's too weak to bear them long.' Can we doubt that these...