 Dim as the borrowed 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,...  A London Encyclopaedia, Or Universal Dictionary of Science, Art, Literature ... - Seite 403herausgegeben von - 1829Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | John Dryden - 1859 - 344 Seiten
...into passion, but brba' reasoned into truth. EELIGIO LAICI. DIM as the borrow'd beams of moon anjl stars To lonely, weary, wandering travellers, Is Reason...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... | |
 | John Dryden - 1859 - 480 Seiten
...passion, hut to he reasoned into truth. RELIGIO LAICI. DIM as the horrow'd heams of moon and itars To lonely, weary, wandering travellers, Is Reason...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,... | |
 | 1863 - 612 Seiten
...the poem, and the whole of The Hind and Panther, are but expansions of it " Dim as the borrowed light of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wandering travellers,...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... | |
 | sir Arthur Hallam Elton (7th bart.) - 1860 - 418 Seiten
...The intellect may struggle at times in the throes of involuntary perplexity — 'Dim as the borrow'd beams of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wandering travellers, Is reason to the soul ' — But so the heart be right, the inward doubt, the secret agony, matters little. Much that I see... | |
 | Testimonies, Author of Sunday evenings at home - 1861 - 236 Seiten
...them not trust solely to reasoning, but look more to religion's guidance ; for " Dim as the borrow'd beams of moon and stars, To lonely, weary, wandering,...fires discover but the sky, Not light us here, so reason's glimmering ray Was lent, not to assure our doubtful way, But to guide us upward to a better... | |
 | 1861 - 356 Seiten
...cancel theirs; The future will but imitate the past, And instability alone will last. HORAUE SMITH. Dim as the borrowed beams of moon and stars To lonely, , weary, wandering travelers, Is reason to the soul; and as on high Those rolling fires discover but the sky. Not light... | |
 | English poets - 1862 - 626 Seiten
...will, of means bereft, He left no faction, but of that was left. RELIGIO LAICI. DIM as the borrow'd beams of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wandering...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.... | |
 | Henry Southgate - 1862 - 774 Seiten
...and all, With common voice, we Reason call. Churchill. EEASON— Fallibility of. 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 glimmering lights discover but the skyNot light us higher, so reason's feeble ray But guides us upward... | |
 | Cecil Frances Alexander - 1865 - 604 Seiten
...the aids of heavenly power, To help us in the evil hour. J. Logan III THE WRITTEN WORD LIU THE BIBLE DIM as the borrowed beams of moon and stars To lonely,...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.... | |
 | Cecil Frances Alexander - 1865 - 342 Seiten
...heavenly power, To help us in the evil hour. III THE WRITTEN WORD LIII THE BIBLE Dim — as the borroVd beams of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wandering...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.... | |
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