 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 Works of the English Poets: Dryden - Pàgina 244per Samuel Johnson - 1779Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1825 - 674 pàgines
...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 as those nightly tapers disappear When day's bright lord ascends our hemisphere, So pale grows Reason... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 pàgines
...rolling fires diseover but the sky, Not light us here; so reason's glimmering ray Was lent, not to assure ? those nightly tapers disappear, When day's bright lord aseends our hemisphere ; So pale grows reason... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 pàgines
...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 as these nightly tapersdisappear, When day's bright lord ascends our hemisphere; So pale grows Reason... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1836 - 390 pàgines
...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 as those nightly tapers disappear, When day's bright lord ascends our hemisphere ; So pale grows reason... | |
 | Cynosure - 1837 - 272 pàgines
...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 as those nightly tapers disappear, When day's bright lord ascends our hemisphere ; So pale grows reason... | |
 | John Dryden - 1837 - 482 pàgines
...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 as those nightly tapers disappear, When day's bright lord ascends our hc-miiphere ; So pale grows Reason... | |
 | J. Slade - 1838 - 370 pàgines
...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 a better day. " And as those mighty tapers disappear " When day's bright lord ascends our hemisphere, " So pale grows Reason... | |
 | J. Slade - 1838 - 400 pàgines
...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 a better day. " And as those mighty tapers disappear " When day's bright lord ascends our hemisphere, " So pale grows Reason... | |
 | Christian - 1840 - 312 pàgines
...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 as those nightly tapers disappear When day's bright lord ascends our hemisphere; So pale grows Reason... | |
 | Johnstone - 1840 - 386 pàgines
...fires discover but the sky, Not light us here ; so reason's glimmering ray Was lent us not to assure our doubtful way, But guide us upward to a better day. And as those nightly tapers disappear, When day's bright lord ascends our hemisphere ; So pale grows reason... | |
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