 | Philip Smith Sparling - 1854 - 136 sider
...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 e, So pale grows Reason at Religion's sight, So dies and so dissolves in supernatural light.... | |
 | John Dryden - 1855 - 350 sider
...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...disappear When day's bright lord ascends our hemisphere ; 1 The «m of the celebrated John ITampden. He was In the Ryehoiuc Plot, and flood £15,000, wliich... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1855 - 786 sider
...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,... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1857 - 394 sider
...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...sight; So dies, and so dissolves in supernatural light. Some few, whose lamps shone brighter, have been led From cause to cause, to nature's secret head; And... | |
 | Alfred Nevin - 1858 - 360 sider
...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 upward to...So dies, and so dissolves, in supernatural light." The Scriptures should be Head, because this is one great means of reaching the practical benefits which... | |
 | 1857 - 574 sider
...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...So dies, and so dissolves, in supernatural light. He next published some classical translations, and two volumes of poems; and on the death of the King,... | |
 | 1858 - 306 sider
...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 upward to...So dies, and so dissolves in supernatural light." THE EIGHTH PRIMITIVE PERSECUTION UNDER THE ROMAN EMPERORS. FTER the death of Callus, jEmilian, the... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1858 - 424 sider
...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,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1859 - 480 sider
...way, But guide us upward to a hetter day. And as those nightly tapers disappear, When day's hright lord ascends our hemisphere ; So pale grows Reason...; So dies, and so dissolves in supernatural light. Some few, whose lamp shone hrighter, have heep led From called to cause, to nature's seeret head ;... | |
 | John Dryden - 1859 - 344 sider
...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 disappeaiv .» SThen day's bright lord ascends our fiSStt5{»here ; So pale grows Reason at Religion's... | |
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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,... 
