 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
 | Testimonies, Author of Sunday evenings at home - 1861 - 236 sidor
...them not trust solely to reasoning, but look more to religion's guidance ; for " Dim as the borrow'd beams of moon and stars, To lonely, weary, wandering,...sky, Not light us here, so reason's glimmering ray Was lent, not to assure our doubtful way, But to guide us upward to a better day. And as those nightly... | |
 | 1861 - 356 sidor
...cancel theirs; The future will but imitate the past, And instability alone will last. HORAUE SMITH. Dim as the borrowed beams of moon and stars To lonely, , weary, wandering travelers, Is reason to the soul; and as on high Those rolling fires discover but the sky. Not light... | |
 | English poets - 1862 - 626 sidor
...will, of means bereft, He left no faction, but of that was left. RELIGIO LAICI. DIM as the borrow'd beams of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wandering...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... | |
 | Henry Southgate - 1862 - 774 sidor
...and all, With common voice, we Reason call. Churchill. EEASON— Fallibility of. Dim as the borrow'd beams of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wandering...travellers, Is reason to the soul ; and as on high Those glimmering lights discover but the skyNot light us higher, so reason's feeble ray But guides us upward... | |
 | Cecil Frances Alexander - 1865 - 604 sidor
...the aids of heavenly power, To help us in the evil hour. J. Logan III THE WRITTEN WORD LIU THE BIBLE DIM 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 those nightly... | |
 | Cecil Frances Alexander - 1865 - 342 sidor
...heavenly power, To help us in the evil hour. III THE WRITTEN WORD LIII THE BIBLE Dim — as the borroVd beams of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wandering...the sky, Not light us here ; so reason's glimmering rayWas lent, not to assure our doubtful way, But guide us upward to a better day. And as those nightly... | |
 | John Dryden - 1866 - 348 sidor
...man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth. RELIGIO LAICI. DIM as the borrow'd beams of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wandering...sky, Not light us here ; so Reason's glimmering ray t Was lent, not to assure our doubtful way, But guide us upward to a better day. And as those nightly... | |
 | Edgar Mertner, Leigh Hunt, Leigh Hunt - 968 sidor
...stars To lonely, wandering, weary travellers, Is reason to the soul.— And as on high Those 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 upwards to a better day. And as those nightly... | |
 | Birmingham central literary assoc - 1881 - 468 sidor
...Catholic communion, he published a piece entitled " The Layman's Faith." This is his declaration : — " Dim 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, Out guide us upward to a better day. And, as those nightly... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 sidor
...inadequacy of reason, expressed in couplets as effectively varied in movement as Dry den ever wrote: Dim 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. How skillfully Dryden... | |
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