 | J. Slade - 1838 - 370 pages
...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 —...But guide us upward to a better day. " And as those mighty tapers disappear " When day's bright lord ascends our hemisphere, " So pale grows Reason at... | |
 | J. Slade - 1838 - 400 pages
...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. " And as those mighty tapers disappear " When day's bright lord ascends our hemisphere, " So pale grows Reason at... | |
 | John Slade (M.D.) - 1838 - 370 pages
...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. " And as those mighty tapers disappear " When day's bright lord ascends our hemisphere, " So pale grows Reason at... | |
 | Hobart Caunter - 1839 - 590 pages
...wandering travellers, Is reason to the soul: and as 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 us upwards to a better day. " We shall think of poetry," observes the eloquent Lowth, " much more humbly... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 1839 - 814 pages
...beams of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wandering travellers, Is reason to the soul : and at on high, Those rolling fires discover but the sky, Not light us here ; so reason's glimmering ray W as lent, not to assure our doubtful way, But guide us upward to a better day. ' Dryden. Let it drink... | |
 | Christian - 1840 - 318 pages
...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...Reason at Religion's sight ; So dies, and so dissolves in supernatural light. HUMAN FRAILTY. Woven with pain into his plan, To-morrow rends away. The bow... | |
 | Christian - 1840 - 312 pages
...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...Reason at Religion's sight ; So dies, and so dissolves in supernatural light. HUMAN FRAILTY. WEAK and irresolute is man ; The purpose of to-day, Woven with... | |
 | Fitz-Greene Halleck - 1840 - 372 pages
...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...Reason at Religion's sight ; So dies, and so dissolves in supernatural light. Some few, whose lamp shone brighter, have been led From cause to cause, to Nature's... | |
 | Johnstone - 1840 - 386 pages
...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 us not to assure our doubtful way, But guide us upward to a better day. And as those nightly tapers... | |
 | John Aikin - 1841 - 840 pages
...and as on high, Those rolling fires discover bul Ihe sky. Xot light us here ; so Reason's summering my pleasures see, 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... | |
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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,... 
