 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 Church Quarterly Review - Pàgina 3051876Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Ludwig von Mühlenfels - 1830 - 182 pàgines
...warns protestantism against adoring reason as its sole divinity ; — thus the voice of Dryden : " Dim as the borrow'd beams of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wandering travellers, So reason to the soul; — and as on high Those rolling fires discover but the sky, Not light us here... | |
 | Ludwig von Mühlenfels - 1830 - 190 pàgines
...warns protestantism against adoring reason as its sole divinity ; — thus the voice of Dryden : " Dim as the borrow'd beams of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wandering travellers, So reason to the soul ; — and as on high Those rolling fires discover but the sky, Not light us here... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 pàgines
...a third, she joined the former two. [From lieligio Laici.] THE LIGHT OF REASON. Dm as the borrowed beams of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wandering...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;... | |
 | Anniversary calendar - 1832 - 548 pàgines
...acquired by action. Love is the business of the idle.— Thenphrartta. Dim as the borrow'd beams of MOOD and stars To lonely, weary, wandering travellers,...soul: and as on high, Those rolling fires discover but tue sky, Not li-ht us here; so Reason's glimmering ray Was leut, not. to assure our doubtful way, But... | |
 | 1832 - 424 pàgines
...Dryden's majestic opening to the " Religio Laici" burst upon me, in all its truth and grandeur — ** Dim as the borrow'd beams of moon and stars, To lonely, weary, wand'ring travellers I« Reason to the soul : and, as on blih. Those rolling fires discover but the... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1836 - 390 pàgines
...single heart. FROM HEUG1O LA1Ct. DlM as the borrow'd beams of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wand'ring travellers, Is reason to the soul: and as on high,...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... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1836 - 336 pàgines
...heart. FROM RELIGIO 1.AIC1. DIM as the horrow'd heams of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wand'ring travellers, Is reason to the soul: and as on high, Those rolling fires discover hut the sky, Not light us here : so reason's glimmering ray Was lent, not to assure our douhtful way,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1837 - 478 pàgines
...to he cheated into passion, hut to he reasoned into truth. RELIGlO LAICI. DlM as the horrow'd heams of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wandering travellers,...soul ; and as on high, Those rolling fires discover hut the sky, Not light us here ; so Reason's glimmering ray Was lent, not to assure our douhtful way,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1837 - 482 pàgines
...naturally are. A man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth. RELIG10 LAICI. 0 DIM as the borrow'd beams of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wandering travellers, Is Reason to ihe soul ; and as on high, Those rolling fires discover but the sky, Not light us here ; so Reason's... | |
 | Cynosure - 1837 - 272 pàgines
...her gentle face without a mask, And never gaze on it with apathy. DIM as the borrow'd beams of morn and stars, To lonely, weary, wandering travellers, Is reason to the soul : and as on high These rolling fires discover but the sky, Not light us here ; so reason's glimmering ray Was lent,... | |
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