 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
 | William Chauncey Fowler - English language - 1855 - 786 pages
...Dim as' | the bor'|row'd beams' | of moon' | and stars To lone'ly, wea'ry, wan'd'ring trav'elers' 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 - 1855 - 768 pages
...Dim as' | the bor'|row'd beams' | of moon' | and stars To lone'ly, wea'ry, wan'd'ring travelers' 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... | |
 | John Dryden - 1856 - 592 pages
...RELIGIO LAICI. Dm 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 ua here ; BO Reason's glimmering ray Was lent, not to assure our doubtful way, But guide us upward... | |
 | John Seely Hart - Readers - 1857 - 394 pages
...Religio Laid.) 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...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 - 1857 - 574 pages
...composition : — 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...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... | |
 | Alfred Nevin - Bible - 1858 - 360 pages
...Land." « " 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, Nor light us here ; so Reason's glimmering ray Was lent, not to assure our doubtful way, But guide... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - English language - 1858 - 424 pages
...bor'|row'd beams' | of moon' | and stars To lone'ly, wea'ry, wan'd'ring trav'elers' Is Reason to the soul 1 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 to... | |
 | Martyrs - 1858 - 306 pages
...as the borrowed beams of moon and stars, To lonely, weary, wandering travellers, Is reason to thf' soul , and as on high, Those rolling fires discover but the sky, Nor light us here ; so reason's glimmering ray Was lent, not to assure our doubtful way, But guide... | |
 | John Dryden - 1859 - 344 pages
...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...upward to a better day. And as those nightly tapers disappeaiv .» SThen day's bright lord ascends our fiSStt5{»here ; So pale grows Reason at Religion's... | |
 | Edgar Mertner, Leigh Hunt, Leigh Hunt - 968 pages
...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... | |
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