 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 rolling fires discover but the sky, Not light us here ; so Reason's glimmering ray Was lent, not to assure our doubtful way,...  The Christian Spectator - Pagina 2441821Visualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
 | Leigh Hunt - 1828 - 500 pagine
...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...lent, not to assure our doubtful way, But guide us upwards to a better day. And as those nightly tapers disappear When day's bright lord ascends our hemisphere... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1828 - 512 pagine
...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...lent, not to assure our doubtful way, But guide us upwards to a better day. And as those nightly tapers disappear When day's bright lord ascends our hemisphere... | |
 | Extracts - 1828 - 786 pagine
...moon and stars Is reason to the soul; for as on high, Those rolling fires discover but the sky, Nor light us here ; so reason's glimmering ray Was lent,...our doubtful way, But guide us upward to a better world. DRYDElf. Reason requires culture to expand it. It resembles the fire concealed in tke Hint,... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 804 pagine
...of Speech. 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'» 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 pagine
...if Spttdi. 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 .-ky, Not light us here ; so reason's glimmering ray Was lent, not to assure our doubtful way, But... | |
 | Ludwig von Mühlenfels - 1830 - 182 pagine
...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 pagine
...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 pagine
...LIGHT OF REASON. Dm as the borrowed beams of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wandering travellers, Is reason to the soul : and as on high, Those rolling...doubtful way, But guide us upward to a better day. And as these nightly tapersdisappear, When day's bright lord ascends our hemisphere; So pale grows Reason... | |
 | 1832 - 428 pagine
...of moon and stan, . To lonely, weary, waml'rlng travellers IB Reason to the soul : and, as on hi^h. Those rolling fires discover but the sky — Not light...lent, not to assure our doubtful way. But guide us upwards to a better day. And, as those nlghtlj tapers disappear, When daj's bright lord ascends his... | |
 | 1832 - 424 pagine
...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...ray Was lent, not to assure our doubtful way. But £ulde us upwards to a better ilay. And, as those nightl} tapers disappear, When da^ 's bright lord... | |
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