 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
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1894 - 688 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... | |
 | James Logie Robertson - 1894 - 388 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... | |
 | Kenyon West - 1895 - 614 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 pnle grows Reason... | |
 | Kenyon West - 1895 - 588 pàgines
...lolling fires discover hut 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 ihose nightly tapers disappear So pale grows Reason at Religion's sight, — When day's bright lord... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1896 - 680 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... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1896 - 794 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Volney Streamer - 1897 - 248 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... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1897 - 666 pàgines
...fires discover but the sky, Not light us here; so reason's glimmering r»y 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 Clark Ridpath - 1899 - 550 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... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1899 - 822 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... | |
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