 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
 | 1861 - 356 sidor
...reason's glimmering rayWas 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. Thought DBTDEB. Precedes the will to think, and error lives Ere reason can be born. CONGREVK. These... | |
 | Testimonies, Author of Sunday evenings at home - 1861 - 236 sidor
...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 tapers disappear When day's bright...So dies, and so dissolves, in supernatural light." Symbolic Theology teaches the proper use of material things, and refers them to " God, our Saviour,... | |
 | English poets - 1862 - 626 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...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... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1863 - 738 sidor
...Reason's glimm'ring ray Was lent, not to assure our doleful way, But guide ue upward to a better day. And as those nightly tapers disappear When day's bright...sight, So dies, and so dissolves in supernatural light. 1 . Reli9io Laid, Hind and Panther. But, gracious God! how well dost thou provide For erring judgments... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1863 - 722 sidor
...Was lent, not to assure our doleful way, But guide ue upward to a betler day. And as those niglitly tapers disappear When day's bright lord ascends our hemisphere; So pale grows Ueason at Religion's sight, So dies, and so dissolves in supernaturai light. 1 . Religio Laici, Hind... | |
 | Cecil Frances Alexander - 1865 - 342 sidor
...reason's glimmering rayWas 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...; So dies, and so dissolves in supernatural light. John Dryden LIV-'THE GOSPELS And so the Word had breath, and wrought With human hands, the creed of... | |
 | John Dryden - 1866 - 348 sidor
...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 tapers disappear, When day's...hemisphere; So pale grows Reason at Religion's sight; 10 So dies, and so dissolves in supernatural light. Some few, whose lamps shone brighter, have been... | |
 | John Dryden - 1866 - 346 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...hemisphere ; So pale grows Reason at Religion's sight ; 10 So dies, and so dissolves in supernatural light. Some few, whose lamp shone brighter, have been... | |
 | H Freer - 1866 - 370 sidor
...speculations upon his mind was, it would seem, to awaken the enquiry, What are all these to me ? " 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." Let atoms be connected by what law of affinity... | |
 | Richard Lane Freer - 1866 - 316 sidor
...speculations upon his mind was, it would seem, to awaken the enquiry, What are all these to me ? " Some few, whose lamp shone brighter, have been led From cause to cause, to Xiture's secret head, And found that one first principle must be." Let atoms be connected by what law... | |
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