 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
 | John Dryden - 1871 - 380 pàgines
...fires discover but the sky, Not light us here, so Reason's glimmering ray 5 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 - 1897 - 764 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 those nightly tapers disappear / When day's bright lord ascends our hemisphere, / So pale grows Reason... | |
 | Hippolyte Adolphe Taine - 1871 - 570 pàgines
...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... | |
 | 1872 - 710 pàgines
...fires discover but the sky, Not light us here ; so Reason's glimmering ray Was lent, not to assure John Milton. 1O34. EDEN, Description of. Out of the fertile those nightly tapers disappear When day's bright lord ascends our hemisphere ; So pale grows Reason... | |
 | Cunningham Geikie - 1872 - 318 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 the hemisphere, So pale grows reason... | |
 | Anthologia Anglica - 1873 - 512 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 - 1874 - 740 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 ; 1 The son of the celebrate!... | |
 | John Dryden - 1874 - 388 pàgines
...fires discover but the sky, Not light us here, so Reason's glimmering ray 5 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... | |
 | Christian life - 1874 - 446 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 those nightly tapers disappear When day's bright lord ascends our hemisphere, So pale grows Reason... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1876 - 562 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... | |
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