 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,...  The Church Quarterly Review - Seite 3051876Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | John Seely Hart - 1857 - 394 Seiten
...in 1631, and died in 1700. ARGUMENT FOR REVEALED RELIGION. (From Religio Laid.) Dim as the borrowed beams of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wandering...lent, not to assure our doubtful way, But guide us upward to a better day. And as those nightly tapers disappear, When day's bright lord ascends our hemisphere;... | |
 | 1857 - 574 Seiten
...following opening lines of this splendid work as a specimen of solemn and majestic composition : — Dim as the borrow'd beams of moon and stars To lonely,...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. And as... | |
 | Alfred Nevin - 1858 - 360 Seiten
...promised inheritance, but, like him, "she must not come into the Holy Land." « " Dim as the borrowed beams of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wandering...on high 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... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1857 - 516 Seiten
...Heroic measure. " Dim as' / the bor'/row'd beams' / of moon' / and stars To lone'ly, wea'ry, wan'd'ring travellers' Is Reason to the soul! and as on high...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... | |
 | 1858 - 306 Seiten
...divines, the opinions they had created vanished away like stars before the sun. " Dim as the borrowed beams of moon and stars, To lonely, weary, wandering travellers, Is reason to thf' soul , and as on high, Those rolling fires discover but the sky, Nor light us here ; so reason's... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1858 - 424 Seiten
...law of the measure is, that each line should consist of five Iambics. This is called Heroic measure. Dim as' | the bor'|row'd beams' | of moon' | and stars To lone'ly, wea'ry, wan'd'ring trav'elers' Is Reason to the soul 1 and as on high Those rolling fires discover but the... | |
 | 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...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 those nightly... | |
 | Birmingham central literary assoc - 1881 - 468 Seiten
...published a piece entitled " The Layman's Faith." This is his declaration : — " Dim as the borrowed beams of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wandering...glimmering ray Was lent, not to assure our doubtful way, Out guide us upward to a better day. And, as those nightly tapers disappear When day's bright lord... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 Seiten
...expressed in couplets as effectively varied in movement as Dry den ever wrote: Dim as the borrowed beams of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wandering...lent, not to assure our doubtful way, But guide us upward to a better day. How skillfully Dryden suggests the give and take of argument between reasonable... | |
 | Taylor Corse - 1991 - 164 Seiten
...and Stars To lonely, weary, wandring Travellers, Is Reason to the Soul: And as on high, Those rowling Fires discover but the Sky Not light us here; So Reason's...lent, not to assure our doubtful way, But guide us upward to a better Day. (1-7) Reminiscence of Religio Laid is appropriate here, since Aeneas too is... | |
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