 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
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 pages
...Those rolling fires discover but the sky, Not light us here ; so Reason's glimmering ray Was lent, ike men too, Worthy their character. Jaf. And what must I do! /-;-•.-. ал those nightly tnpers disappear, When day's bright lord ascends our hemisphere; So pale grows Reason... | |
 | Alexander Wilson M'Clure - 1848 - 638 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...nightly tapers disappear, When day's bright lord ascends the hemisphere, So pale grows Reason at Religion's sight, So dies, arid so dissolves in supernatural... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1849 - 708 pages
...Those rolling fires discover but the sky, Not light us here ; so Reason's glimmering raj Was lent, wo miles in length and one in bredth. The clouds of...dismall, and reach M upon computation neer 50 miles ; So dice, and so dissolves, in supernatural light. Dryden's doubts about religion were soon dispelled... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 594 pages
...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...hemisphere; So pale grows Reason at Religion's sight, So dies, and so dissolves, in supernatural light. Soon after the publication of this important poem,... | |
 | 1851 - 496 pages
...high, Those rolling fires discover but the sky, Not light us here ; so Reason's glimmering rajWas 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 bight. Some few, whose lamp shone brighter, have been led... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 602 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. Soon after the publication of this important poem,... | |
 | Edward Deering Mansfield - 1851 - 348 pages
...Those rolling fires discover but the sky, Not light as here ; so reason's glimmering ray Was lent, not to assure our doubtful way, But guide us upward to a better day." It is true, that many philosophers have busied themselves with systematizing what is called intellectual... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1851 - 1502 pages
...Those rolling fires discover but the sky, Not light, as here ; so Reason's glimmering ray Was lent, not to assure our doubtful way, But guide us upward to a better day. — DRYDEN. O unexpected stroke ! worse than of Death ! Must I leave thee, Paradise ? thus leave Thee,... | |
 | Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - 1852 - 438 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... | |
 | 1852 - 874 pages
...Those rolling fires discover but the sky. Not light us here ; so Reason's glimmering ray Was lent, the rude mountain, and the mossy wild, Tumbling through...abrupt, and sounding far; Then o'er the sanded valley ; So dies, and so dissolves in supernatural light, Some few, whose lamp shone brighter, have been led... | |
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