Angels' Visits.
Campbell's famous line,
"Like angels visits, few and far between,"
has been clearly shown by a correspondent in another paper, to be all but copied from Blair:—
—— "like an ill-used ghost Not to return;—or if it did, its visits Like those of angels, short and far between."
Blair's Grave.
But the same phrase, though put differently, occurs in a religious poem of Norris of Bemerton, who died in 1711:—
"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."
WICCAMECUS.