 Dim as the borrowed 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 London encyclopaedia, or, Universal dictionary of science, art ... - Seite 399herausgegeben von Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1857 - 574 Seiten
...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, weary, wandering...and as on 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 1858 - 306 Seiten
...by the most able 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... | |
 | 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...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, But... | |
 | John Dryden - 1859 - 480 Seiten
...passion, hut to he reasoned into truth. RELIGIO LAICI. DIM as the horrow'd heams of moon and itars To lonely, weary, wandering travellers, Is Reason...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,... | |
 | 1863 - 612 Seiten
...the poem, and the whole of The Hind and Panther, are but expansions of it " Dim as the borrowed light of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wandering travellers,...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, But guide... | |
 | sir Arthur Hallam Elton (7th bart.) - 1860 - 418 Seiten
...The intellect may struggle at times in the throes of involuntary perplexity — 'Dim as the borrow'd beams of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wandering travellers, Is reason to the soul ' — But so the heart be right, the inward doubt, the secret agony, matters little. Much that I see... | |
 | Testimonies, Author of Sunday evenings at home - 1861 - 236 Seiten
...them not trust solely to reasoning, but look more to religion's guidance ; for " Dim as the borrow'd beams of moon and stars, To lonely, weary, wandering,...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, But to... | |
 | 1861 - 356 Seiten
...cancel theirs; The future will but imitate the past, And instability alone will last. HORAUE SMITH. Dim as the borrowed beams of moon and stars To lonely, , weary, wandering travelers, Is reason to the soul; and as on high Those rolling fires discover but the sky. Not light... | |
 | English poets - 1862 - 626 Seiten
...will, of means bereft, He left no faction, but of that was left. RELIGIO LAICI. DIM as the borrow'd beams of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wandering...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, But guide... | |
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