 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...  The Poetical Works of John Drydenautor: John Dryden - 1853 - Liczba stron: 524Widok fragmentu - Informacje o książce
 | John Bell - 1777 - Liczba stron: 644
...Those rolling fires discover hut the sky, Not light us here ; so reason's glimm'ring ray J Was leut, not to assure our doubtful way, But guide us upward...hemisphere; So pale grows Reason at Religion's sight ; 10 So dies, and so dissolves in supernat'ral light. Some few, whose lamp shone brighter, have been... | |
 | 1801 - Liczba stron: 416
...glimmering ray 1 Was lent, not to assure our doubtful way, L But guide us upward to a better day. I And as those nightly tapers disappear When day's bright...hemisphere, So pale grows Reason at Religion's sight, ro So dies, and so dissolves, in supernat'ral light. Some few, whose lamp shone brighter, have been... | |
 | John Dryden - 1808 - Liczba stron: 480
...on high, Those rolling fires discover but the sky, Not light us here ; so reason's glimmering ray V Was lent, not to assure our doubtful way, > But guide...brighter, have been led From cause to cause, to nature's sacred head, And found that one First Principle must be : But what, or who, that universal He ; Whether... | |
 | John Dryden, Thomas Park - 1808 - Liczba stron: 374
...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, /But guide us upward to a better day. 1 And as those nightly tapers disappear When day's bright lord ascends our hemisphere ; So pale grows... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - Liczba stron: 474
...on high, Those rolling fires discover but the sky, Not light us here; so reason's glimmering ray Y Was lent, not to assure our doubtful way, > But guide us upward to a better day. 3. And as those nightly tapers disappear, When day's bright lord ascends our hemisphere; So pale grows... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - Liczba stron: 472
...on high, Those rolling fires discover but the sky, Not light us here; so reason's glimmering ray V Was lent, not to assure our doubtful way, > But guide us upward to a better day. X And as those nightly tapers disappear, When day's bright lord ascends our hemisphere; So pale grows... | |
 | 1809 - Liczba stron: 402
...glimm'riug ray 1 Was lent not to assure our doubtful way, V But guide us upward to n better day. J And as those nightly tapers disappear When day's bright...at religion's sight ; So dies, and so dissolves in supcrnat'ral light. Some few, whose lamp shone brighter, have been led From cause to cause, to nature's... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - Liczba stron: 604
...reason's glimm'nng rayn Mas lent not to assure our doubtful way, V But guide us upward to a belter day. j hto' Reason's wounds alone, si^ht ; So dies, and so dissolves in supernit'ral light. Snmet'ew.whoselampshonebrighttr.havcbeciilcd... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - Liczba stron: 654
...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, But guide...So pale grows Reason at Religion's sight; So dies, anil so dissolves in supernatural light. Some few, whose lamp shone brighter, have been led From cause... | |
 | 1820 - Liczba stron: 774
...as on liish Those 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 these nightly tapers disappear When day's bright Lord ascends our hemisphere, So pale grow's rea&on... | |
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