| Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 436 pages
...privilege of understanding by the eye what is spoken. Holder's Elements if Spttdi. Dim, as the borrowed beams of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wandering...and as on high. Those rolling fires discover but the .-ky, Not light us here ; so reason's glimmering ray Was lent, not to assure our doubtful way, But... | |
| Ludwig von Mühlenfels - 1830 - 182 pages
...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...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." . „... | |
| Ludwig von Mühlenfels - 1830 - 190 pages
...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...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." Protestantism... | |
| Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 pages
...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...doubtful way, But guide us upward to a better day. And as these nightly tapersdisappear, When day's bright lord ascends our hemisphere; So pale grows Reason... | |
| 1832 - 428 pages
...of moon and stan, . To lonely, weary, waml'rlng travellers IB Reason to the soul : and, as on hi^h. Those rolling fires discover but the sky — Not light...lent, not to assure our doubtful way. But guide us upwards to a better day. And, as those nlghtlj tapers disappear, When daj's bright lord ascends his... | |
| 1832 - 424 pages
...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 sky — Not light...ray Was lent, not to assure our doubtful way. But £ulde us upwards to a better ilay. And, as those nightl} tapers disappear, When da^ 's bright lord... | |
| Anniversary calendar - 1832 - 548 pages
...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... | |
| Samuel Carter Hall - 1836 - 336 pages
...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 pages
...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,... | |
| Cynosure - 1837 - 272 pages
...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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