 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
 | Edwin O. Chapman - 1884 - 430 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 Dryden, Walter Scott - 1885 - 482 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... | |
 | Maude Gillette Phillips - 1885 - 654 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... | |
 | Maude Gillette Phillips - 1885 - 728 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... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1885 - 1108 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 aa those nightly tapers disappear When day's bright lord ascends our hemisphere. So pale grows Reason... | |
 | 1886 - 548 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... | |
 | C. E. Alexander - 1886 - 346 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... | |
 | James Baldwin - 1892 - 316 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... | |
 | Henry Coppée - 1893 - 560 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 Dryden - 1893 - 384 pàgines
...fires discover but the sky, Not light us here, so Reason's glimmering ray 5 Was lent, not to assure cur 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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