 Dim as the borrowed beams of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wandering travellers, Is reason to the soul; and, as on high Those rolling fires discover but the sky, Not light us here, so reason's glimmering ray Was lent, not to assure our doubtful way,...  A London Encyclopaedia, Or Universal Dictionary of Science, Art, Literature ... - Σελίδα 403επεξεργασία από - 1829Πλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | Edward Deering Mansfield - 1851 - 348 σελίδες
...Scriptures. That is a path in which faith, not reason, must be his guide and friend : " Dim as the borrow'd beams of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wandering...Those rolling fires discover but the sky, Not light as here ; so reason's glimmering ray Was lent, not to assure our doubtful way, But guide us upward... | |
 | Edward Deering Mansfield - 1851 - 340 σελίδες
...Scriptures. That is a path in which faith, not reason, must be his guide and friend : " Dim aa the borrow'd beams of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wandering travellers, Is reason to the soul ; and aa on high, Those rolling fires discover but the sky, Not light as here ; so reason's glimmering ray... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 602 σελίδες
...skeptical spirit. The opening of this poem is singularly solemn and majestic : — Dim as the borrow'd beams of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wandering travellers, Is Reason to tho soul ; and as on high Those rolling fires discover but the sky, Not light us here ; so Reason's... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1851 - 1502 σελίδες
...bor'row'd beams' of moon' and stars To lone'Iy, wea'ry, wan'd'ring travelers' Is Reason to the sonl ! ǽ ￂ Ѹ as here ; so Reason's glimmering ray Was lent, not to assure our doubtful way, But guide us upward... | |
 | 1852 - 874 σελίδες
...design'd For one fair female, lost him half the kind. RELIGIO LAICI. AN EPISTLE. DIM as the borrow'd 2L2 Reason's glimmering ray Was lent, not to assure our doubtful way, But guide us upward to a better day.... | |
 | Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - 1852 - 438 σελίδες
...From Dry den's Religio Laici. Dim as the borrow'd beams of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wand'ring travellers, Is reason to the soul : and as on high,...fires discover but the sky, Not light us here : so reason's glimmering ray Was lent, not to assure our doubtful way, But guide us upward to a better day.... | |
 | John Dryden - 1852 - 378 σελίδες
...dies. RELIGIO Luc r. 1682. Dim as the borrow'd beams of moon and stars, To lonely, weary, wand'ring travellers, Is reason to the soul: and, as on high,...fires discover but the sky, Not light us here; so reason's glimm'ring ray Was lent, not to assure our doubtful way, But guide us upward to a better day.... | |
 | Cyclopaedia, Henry Gardiner Adams - 1854 - 762 σελίδες
...returned unto me, and I blessed the Most High; At the same time my reason returned Daniel, iv. 34, 36. DIM as the borrowed beams of moon and stars To lonely,...fires discover but the sky, Not light us here; so Reason's glimmering ray Was lent, not to assure our doubtful way, But guide us upward to a better day.... | |
 | John Dryden - 1854 - 318 σελίδες
...but to be reasoned into truth. RELIGIO LAICI. AN EPISTLE. Ornari res ipsa. negat, contenta docere. IM as the borrowed beams of moon and stars To lonely,...fires discover but the sky, Not light us here ; so reason's glimmering ray Was lent, not to assure our doubtful way, But guide us upward to a better day.... | |
 | Philip Smith Sparling - 1854 - 136 σελίδες
...happiness ; but it is we ourselves who by excess defile that which otherwise were pure. MARRYAT. REASON. DIM as the borrowed beams of moon and stars To lonely,...rolling fires discover but the sky— Not light us here—so Reason's glimmering ray Was sent, not to assure our doubtful way, But guide us onward to... | |
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