 | Philip Smith Sparling - 1854 - 136 pages
...ourselves who by excess defile that which otherwise were pure. MARRYAT. REASON. DIM as the borrowed beams of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wandering...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... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1855 - 786 pages
...law of the measure is, that each line should consist of five Iambics. This is called Heroic measure. Dim as' | the bor'|row'd beams' | of moon' | and stars To lone'ly, wea'ry, wan'd'ring trav'elers' Is Reason to the soul ! and as on high ^ Those rolling fires discover but the... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1855 - 768 pages
...law of the measure is, that each line should consist of five Iambics. This is called Heroic measure. Dim as' | the bor'|row'd beams' | of moon' | and stars To lone'ly, wea'ry, wan'd'ring travelers' Is Reason to the soul ! and as on high Those rolling fires discover but the sky,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1856 - 592 pages
...naturally are. A man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth. RELIGIO LAICI. Dm as the borrow'd beams of moon and stars To lonely,...Those rolling fires discover but the sky, Not light ua here ; BO Reason's glimmering ray Was lent, not to assure our doubtful way, But guide us upward... | |
 | 1857 - 574 pages
...following opening 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,...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... | |
 | Alfred Nevin - 1858 - 360 pages
...promised inheritance, but, like him, "she must not come into the Holy Land." « " Dim as the borrowed beams of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wandering...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... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1857 - 516 pages
...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 us upward to... | |
 | 1858 - 306 pages
...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... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1858 - 424 pages
...law of the measure is, that each line should consist of five Iambics. This is called Heroic measure. Dim as' | the bor'|row'd beams' | of moon' | and stars To lone'ly, wea'ry, wan'd'ring trav'elers' Is Reason to the soul 1 and as on high Those rolling fires discover but the... | |
 | John Dryden - 1859 - 344 pages
...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...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... | |
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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,... 
