 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,...  Mechanics Magazine - Seite 2051825Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1851 - 496 Seiten
...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 to a better day. And as those nightly tapers disappear, When day's bright lord ascends our hemisphere, So pale grows... | |
 | Edward Deering Mansfield - 1851 - 348 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 594 Seiten
...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. And as those nightly tapers disappear, When day's bright lord ascends our hemisphere; So pale grows... | |
 | 1852 - 874 Seiten
...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 rocks abrup And as those nightly tapers disappear When day's bright lord ascends our hemisphere ; So pale grows... | |
 | John Dryden - 1852 - 378 Seiten
...high, Those rolling fires 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 those nightly tapers disappear When day's bright lord ascends our hemisphere • So pale grows... | |
 | Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - 1852 - 438 Seiten
...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 those nightly tapers disappear, When day's bright lord ascends our hemisphere; So pale grows... | |
 | Cyclopaedia, Henry Gardiner Adams - 1854 - 762 Seiten
...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. And as those nightly tapers disappear, When day's bright lord ascends our hemisphere; So pale grows... | |
 | Philip Smith Sparling - 1854 - 136 Seiten
...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 sent, not to assure our doubtful way, But guide us onward to a better day. And as those nightly tapers disappear When day's bright lord ascends our hemispher... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1855 - 786 Seiten
...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, native soil?... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1855 - 768 Seiten
...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. — DRYDKN. O unexpected stroke ! worse than of Death ! Must I leave thee, Paradise ? thus leave Thee,... | |
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