 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,...  A London Encyclopaedia, Or Universal Dictionary of Science, Art, Literature ... - Page 403edited by - 1829Full view - About this book
 | John Dryden - 1866 - 346 pages
...man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth . RELIGIO LAICI. DIM as the borrow'd beams of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wandering...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.... | |
 | John Dryden - 1866 - 348 pages
...man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth. RELIGIO LAICI. DIM as the borrow'd beams of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wandering...fires discover but the sky, Not light us here ; so Reason's glimmering ray t Was lent, not to assure our doubtful way, But guide us upward to a better... | |
 | Rev. Henry Greene - 1866 - 496 pages
...beautifully expressed the substance of many of the preceding remarks in the following lines : — " Dim as the borrowed beams of moon and stars To lonely...travellers Is reason to the soul ; and as on high These glittering lights discover but the sky, Not light us higher, so reason's feeble ray But guides... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1866 - 442 pages
...Que toute Dim as the borrow'd beams of moon and stars To lonely', weary, wand'ring trayellërs, ;' Is reason to the soul : and as on high Those rolling fires discover but the sky, Nor light us here; so Reason's glimm'ring ray Was lent, not tb assure oin- doleful way, : But guide... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1866 - 446 pages
...la honte. — Que toute 1. Dim as the borrow'd beams of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wand'ring travellers, Is reason to the soul : and as on high Those rolling fires diseover but the sky Nor light us here; so Reason's glimm'nng ray Was lent, not to assure our doleful... | |
 | Henry Coppée - 1867 - 586 pages
...period arriving when we may see realized those beautiful and powerful words of a great poet : — " Dim as the borrowed beams of moon and stars To lonely,...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.... | |
 | Robert Hall Baynes - 1867 - 696 pages
...faith. It becomes us to instruct them in the superior claims of revelation, and to say, — " Dim 08 the borrowed beams of moon and stars To lonely, weary,...fires discover but the sky, Not light us here ; so reason's glimmering ray TVas lent, not to assure our doubtful way, But guide us upwards to a better... | |
 | Birmingham central literary assoc - 1881 - 468 pages
...Catholic communion, he published a piece entitled " The Layman's Faith." This is his declaration : — " Dim as the borrowed beams of moon and stars To lonely,...fires discover but the sky, Not light us here ; so reason's glimmering ray Was lent, not to assure our doubtful way, Out guide us upward to a better day.... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 pages
...inadequacy of reason, expressed in couplets as effectively varied in movement as Dry den ever wrote: Dim as the borrowed beams of moon and stars To lonely,...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.... | |
 | David L. Larsen - 644 pages
...Unusually significant is his Religio laici (Layman's Religion), which commences in a cloak of mystery. 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... | |
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