 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,...  Bell's Edition - Page 107de John Bell - 1777Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | 1840 - 372 pages
...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...hemisphere, So pale grows Reason at Religion's sight ; So dies, and so dissolves in supernatural light. Some few, whose lamp shone brighter, have been led... | |
 | Christian - 1840 - 318 pages
...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...hemisphere ; So pale grows Reason at Religion's sight ; So dies, and so dissolves in supernatural light. HUMAN FRAILTY. Woven with pain into his plan, To-morrow... | |
 | Christian - 1840 - 312 pages
...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...hemisphere; So pale grows Reason at Religion's sight ; So dies, and so dissolves in supernatural light. HUMAN FRAILTY. WEAK and irresolute is man ; The... | |
 | Johnstone - 1840 - 386 pages
...Those rolling fires discover but the sky, Not light us here ; so reason's glimmering ray Was lent us not to assure our doubtful way, But guide us upward...lord ascends our hemisphere ; So pale grows reason at religious sight, And dies, and so dissolves, in supernatural light." The grandeur of thought and of... | |
 | John Aikin - 1841 - 840 pages
...high, Those rolling fires discover bul Ihe sky. Xot light us here ; so Reason's summering ray Was lent, ee, Should hither throng to live like me, And so make a city here. F steed : DRYDEN. And as those nightly lapers disappear When day's bright lord ascends our hemisphere... | |
 | John Aikin - 1843 - 826 pages
...ray Was lent, not to assure our doubtful way, Bui guide us upward to a belter day. steed : DRYDEN. nsume me, and oft-invocated death Hasten the welcome...Man. Wilt thou then serve the Philistines with that : So dies, and so dissolves in supernatural light. Some few, whose lamp shone brighter, have been led... | |
 | John Aikin - 1843 - 830 pages
...high, Those rolling fires discover but tho sky, Not light us here; so Reason's glimmering my Was lent, not to assure our doubtful way, But guide us upward to a better day. DRYDEN. And as those nightly tapers disappear When day's bright lord ascends our hemisphere ; So pale... | |
 | Encyclopaedia - 1845 - 852 pages
...as on high, Those rolling fira discover but the sky, Not light us here ; so reason's glimmering ray Was leut, not to assure our doubtful way, But guide us upward to a better day. A/. Religio Laid. An Epistle. The ashes by their weight, their fierinesi, and their dryness, put it... | |
 | 1847 - 272 pages
...Those rolling fires discover but the sky, Nor light us here ; so reason's glimmering ray Was lent, not to assure our doubtful way, But guide us upward...disappear, When day's bright lord ascends our hemisphere, So.pale grows reason at religion's sight :: So dies, and so dissolves in supernatural light." THE EIGHTH... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 pages
...Those rolling fires discover but the sky, Not light us here ; so Reason's glimmering ray Was lent, hambers day'» bright lord ascends our hemisphere; So pale grows Reason at Religion's »ight ; So dies, and... | |
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