 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,...  The Works of John Dryden,: Religio laici, or a Layman's Faith, an epistle ... - Sida 37efter John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 804 sidor
...capable of the same privilege of understanding by the eye what is spoken. Holder't Elements of Speech. Dim, as the borrowed beams of moon and stars To lonely,...fires discover but the sky, Not light us here; so reason'» glimmering ray \Vas lent, not to assure our doubtful way, But guide us upward to a better... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 436 sidor
...capable of the same privilege of understanding by the eye what is spoken. Holder's Elements if Spttdi. Dim, as the borrowed beams of moon and stars To lonely,...and as on high. Those rolling fires discover but the .-ky, Not light us here ; so reason's glimmering ray Was lent, not to assure our doubtful way, But... | |
 | Ludwig von Mühlenfels - 1830 - 182 sidor
...of Dryden : " Dim as the borrow'd beams of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wandering travellers, So reason to the soul; — and as on high Those rolling...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." . „... | |
 | Ludwig von Mühlenfels - 1830 - 190 sidor
...of Dryden : " Dim as the borrow'd beams of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wandering travellers, So reason to the soul ; — and as on high Those rolling...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." Protestantism... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 sidor
...further go; To make a third, she joined the former two. [From lieligio Laici.] THE LIGHT OF REASON. Dm as the borrowed beams of moon and stars To lonely,...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. And as these nightly... | |
 | Anniversary calendar - 1832 - 548 sidor
...acquired by action. Love is the business of the idle.— Thenphrartta. Dim as the borrow'd beams of MOOD and stars To lonely, weary, wandering travellers,...soul: and as on high, Those rolling fires discover but tue sky, Not li-ht us here; so Reason's glimmering ray Was leut, not. to assure our doubtful way, But... | |
 | 1832 - 424 sidor
...of moon and stars, To lonely, weary, wand'ring travellers I« Reason to the soul : and, as on blih. Those rolling fires discover but the sky — Not light us here; so Reason's glimmering ray Was lent, not to assure our doubtful way. But £ulde us upwards to a better ilay. And, as those nightl}... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1836 - 390 sidor
...single heart. FROM HEUG1O LA1Ct. DlM as the borrow'd beams of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wand'ring travellers, Is reason to the soul: and as on high,...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. And as those nightly... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1836 - 336 sidor
...heart. FROM RELIGIO 1.AIC1. DIM as the horrow'd heams of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wand'ring travellers, Is reason to the soul: and as on high, Those rolling fires discover hut the sky, Not light us here : so reason's glimmering ray Was lent, not to assure our douhtful way,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1837 - 478 sidor
...to he cheated into passion, hut to he reasoned into truth. RELIGlO LAICI. DlM as the horrow'd heams of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wandering travellers,...soul ; and as on high, Those rolling fires discover hut the sky, Not light us here ; so Reason's glimmering ray Was lent, not to assure our douhtful way,... | |
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