 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, But guide us upward to a better day. And...  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
 | Scotland Church of - 1853 - 804 sidor
...groups, or their persistent arrangement into systems over every spot of its surface. As Dryden says — " Some few, whose lamp shone brighter, have been led From cause to cause, to Nature's secret head, And found that one FIRST PRINCIPLE must be; But what, or who, that universal He; Whether... | |
 | Cyclopaedia, Henry Gardiner Adams - 1854 - 762 sidor
...Reason's glimmering ray Was lent, not to assure our doubtful way, But guide us upward to a better day. And as those nightly tapers disappear, When day's...So dies, and so dissolves, in supernatural light. Dryden. Yet, since the effects of Providence, we find, Are variously dispensed to human kind; That... | |
 | Philip Smith Sparling - 1854 - 136 sidor
...Reason's glimmering ray Was sent, not to assure our doubtful way, But guide us onward to a better day. And as those nightly tapers disappear When day's bright lord ascends our hemispher e, So pale grows Reason at Religion's sight, So dies and so dissolves in supernatural light.... | |
 | John Dryden - 1855 - 350 sidor
...£15,000, wliich was remitted at the Revolution. / So pale grows reason at religion's sight ; io v L_§L° dies, and so dissolves in supernatural light. Some...brighter, have been led From cause to cause, to nature's secret head ; And found that one first principle must be : But what, or who, that UNIVERSAL HE : Whether... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1857 - 394 sidor
...Reason's glimmering ray Was lent, not to assure our doubtful way, But guide us upward to a better day. And as those nightly tapers disappear, When day's...so dissolves in supernatural light. Some few, whose lamps shone brighter, have been led From cause to cause, to nature's secret head; And found that one... | |
 | Alfred Nevin - 1858 - 360 sidor
...Reason's glimmering ray Was lent, not to assure our doubtful way, But guide us upward to a better day. And as those nightly tapers disappear, When day's...So dies, and so dissolves, in supernatural light." The Scriptures should be Head, because this is one great means of reaching the practical benefits which... | |
 | 1857 - 574 sidor
...reason's glimm'ring ray Was lent, not to assure our doubtful way, But guide us upward to a better day. And as those nightly tapers disappear, When day's...So dies, and so dissolves, in supernatural light. He next published some classical translations, and two volumes of poems; and on the death of the King,... | |
 | 1858 - 306 sidor
...reason's glimmering ray Was lent, not to assure our doubtful way, But guide us upward to a better day. And as those nightly tapers disappear, When day's...So dies, and so dissolves in supernatural light." THE EIGHTH PRIMITIVE PERSECUTION UNDER THE ROMAN EMPERORS. FTER the death of Callus, jEmilian, the... | |
 | John Dryden - 1859 - 480 sidor
...way, But guide us upward to a hetter day. And as those nightly tapers disappear, When day's hright lord ascends our hemisphere ; So pale grows Reason...in supernatural light. Some few, whose lamp shone hrighter, have heep led From called to cause, to nature's seeret head ; And found that one first principle... | |
 | 1863 - 612 sidor
...Reason's glimmering ray "Was lent, not to assure our doubtful way, But guide us upward to a better day. And as those nightly tapers disappear When day's bright...sight, So dies, and so dissolves, in supernatural light !" How many unreflecting Christians are ready to indorse this statement, without once suspecting the... | |
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