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 - Pągina 244per Samuel Johnson - 1779Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
| Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - 1852 - 438 pągines
...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 - 1852 - 378 pągines
...rolling fires 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 those nightly tapers disappear When day's bright lord ascends our hemisphere • So pale grows reason... | |
| Cyclopaedia, Henry Gardiner ADAMS - 1854 - 762 pągines
...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 those nightly tapers disappear, When day's bright lord ascends our hemisphere; So pale grows Reason,... | |
| 1857 - 574 pągines
...fires 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 those nightly tapers disappear, When day's bright lord ascends our hemisphere; So pale grows reason... | |
| John Seely Hart - 1857 - 394 pągines
...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 those nightly tapers disappear, When day's bright lord ascends our hemisphere; So pale grows Reason... | |
| Alfred Nevin - 1858 - 360 pągines
...fires discover but the sky, Nor 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,... | |
| 1863 - 612 pągines
...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... | |
| 1861 - 356 pągines
...rolling fires discover but the sky. Not light us here; so 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 lord ascends our hemisphere, So pale grows reason... | |
| English poets - 1862 - 622 pągines
...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... | |
| Cecil Frances Alexander - 1865 - 342 pągines
...rolling fires discover but the sky, Not light us here ; so 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 lord ascends our hemisphere, So pale grows Reason... | |
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