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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' visits, short and bright, Mortality's too weak to bear them long. "
Transactions of the Woolhope Naturalists' Field Club - Page 173
1894
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The Christian guardian (and Church of England magazine).

1828
...joys we dole 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 to beat them long. JOHN NORRIS, 1700. 376 ON SANCTIFICATION. SIR— Your kindness in inserting a few remarks...
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Southern Literary Messenger, Volume 3

1837 - 830 pages
...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 seldom...
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Divine breathings: or, A pious soul thirsting after Christ, in a hundred ...

Thomas Sherman - 1836 - 134 pages
...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 to bear them long. 99 89. Competency better than abundance. I AM not far from my home ; therefore I need not make much...
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Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Review

1839 - 864 pages
...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 to beur them long." Some one took the unnecessary trouble of turning Blair's Grave into rhyme. The title...
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Notes and Queries

1869 - 668 pages
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The New Englander, Volume 9

1851 - 650 pages
...we dote npon — 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 to bear them long." Blair has borrowed this thought in his poem of the " Grave," and thus expresses it, — « visits Like...
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New Englander and Yale Review, Volume 9

Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1851 - 684 pages
...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 to bear them long." Blair has borrowed this thought in his poem of the " Grave," and thus expresses it, — " visits Like...
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Democritus in London: With the Mad Pranks and Comical Conceits of Motley and ...

George Daniel - 1852 - 328 pages
...1711, has a beautiful verse upon this subject : — " But those who soonest take their flight, Are the most exquisite and strong, Like angels' visits short...and bright, Mortality's too weak to bear them long." Robert Blair, author of the " Grave," borrowed his wellknown line from this verse, which line Campbell...
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Democritus in London: With the Mad Pranks and Comical Conceits of Motley and ...

George Daniel - 1852 - 338 pages
...1711, has a beautiful verse upon this subject : — " But those who soonest take their flight, Are the most exquisite and strong, Like angels' visits short...and bright, Mortality's too weak to bear them long." Robert Blair, author of the " Grave," borrowed his wellknown line from this verse, which line Campbell...
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Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Thomas Chalmers ...

William Hanna - 1852 - 576 pages
...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 to bear them long.' Can we doubt that these lines were actually inspired by such a visit in the presence of the heavenly...
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