 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 - Page 2441821Full view - About this book
 | Edward Deering Mansfield - Education - 1851 - 340 pages
...travellers, Is reason to the soul ; and aa on high, Those rolling fires discover but the sky, Not light as here ; so reason's glimmering ray Was lent, not to...doubtful way, But guide us upward to a better day." It is true, that many philosophers have busied themselves with systematizing what is called intellectual... | |
 | Edward Deering Mansfield - Education - 1851 - 348 pages
...and friend : " 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 as here ; so reason's glimmering ray Was lent, not to assure our doubtful way, But guide us upward... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - English language - 1851 - 1502 pages
...bor'row'd beams' of moon' and stars To lone'Iy, wea'ry, wan'd'ring travelers' Is Reason to the sonl ! ǽ ￂ Ѹ as here ; so Reason's glimmering ray Was lent, not to assure our doubtful way, But guide us upward... | |
 | Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - English poetry - 1852 - 438 pages
...Religio Laici. Dim as the borrow'd beams of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wand'ring travellers, Is reason to the soul : and as on high, Those rolling...better day. And as those nightly tapers disappear, When day's bright lord ascends our hemisphere; So pale grows reason at religion's sight; So dies, and so... | |
 | English poetry - 1852 - 874 pages
...AN EPISTLE. DIM as the borrow'd beams of Moon and stars To lonely, weary, wandering travellers, Is And the mix'd ruin of its banks o'ersprcad, At last...abrupt, and sounding far; Then o'er the sanded va day's bright lord ascends our hemisphere ; So pale grows Reason at Religion's sight ; So dies, and... | |
 | John Dryden - English poetry - 1852 - 378 pages
...Luc r. 1682. Dim as the borrow'd beams of moon and stars, To lonely, weary, wand'ring travellers, Is 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. And as... | |
 | John Dryden - 1854 - 318 pages
...contenta docere. IM as the borrowed beams of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wandering travellers, Is reason to the soul : and as, on high, Those rolling...better day. And as those nightly tapers disappear When day's bright lord ascends our hemisphere; So pale grows reason at religion's sight; So dies, and so... | |
 | Cyclopaedia, Henry Gardiner Adams - 1854 - 762 pages
...iv. 34, 36. 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...better day. And as those nightly tapers disappear, When day's bright lord ascends our hemisphere; So pale grows Reason, at Religion's sight; So dies, and so... | |
 | Philip Smith Sparling - 1854 - 136 pages
...MARRYAT. REASON. 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 sent, not to assure our doubtful way, But guide us onward to... | |
 | John Dryden - 1855 - 350 pages
...as the borrowtQjfcms of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wnflering travellers, V Is reason to ±he soul : and as on high, Those rolling fires discover...better day. And as those nightly tapers disappear When day's bright lord ascends our hemisphere ; 1 The «m of the celebrated John ITampden. He was In the... | |
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