 | Alexander Wilson M'Clure - Christianity - 1848 - 608 pages
...its decrees in obedience and submission, and its duty as to the Bible is done. " Dim as the borrowed beams of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wandering...ray Was lent, not to assure our doubtful way, But guide us upward to a better day. And as those nightly tapers disappear, When day's bright lord ascends... | |
 | Alexander Wilson M'Clure - Christianity - 1848 - 638 pages
...decrees in obedience and submission, and its duty as to the Bible is done. •• Dim as the borrowed beams of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wandering travellers, Is reason to the soul : and aa on high, Those rolling fires discover but the sky, Not light us here ; so Reason's glimmering ray... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1849 - 708 pages
...spirit with regard to revealed religion. The opening of this poem is singularly solemn and majestic — Kiredrake, raj Was lent, not to assure our doubtful way, But guide us upward to a better day. And as those nightly... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1850 - 710 pages
...spirit with regard to revealed religion. The opening of this poem is singularly solemn and majestic — C guide us upward to a better day. And as those nightly tapers disappear, When day's bright lord ascends... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 594 pages
...evincing a decided skeptical spirit. The opening of this poem is singularly solemn and majestic : — Dim as the borrow'd beams of moon and stars To lonely,...ray Was lent; not to assure our doubtful way, But guide us upward to a better day. And as those nightly tapers disappear, When day's bright lord ascends... | |
 | English poetry - 1851 - 496 pages
...God's alone, and choose the better part. JOHN DKYDEN. BOBN, 1631 ; DIED, 1700. REASON AND REVELATION. DIM as the borrow'd beams of moon and stars To lonely,...the sky, Not light us here ; so Reason's glimmering rajWas lent, not to assure our doubtful way, But guide us upward to a better day. And as those nightly... | |
 | Edward Deering Mansfield - Education - 1851 - 348 pages
...revealed in the Scriptures. That is a path in which faith, not reason, must be his guide and friend : " Dim as the borrow'd beams of moon and stars To lonely,...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... | |
 | Edward Deering Mansfield - Education - 1851 - 340 pages
...the Scriptures. That is a path in which faith, not reason, must be his guide and friend : " Dim aa the borrow'd beams of moon and stars To lonely, weary,...wandering travellers, Is reason to the soul ; and aa on high, Those rolling fires discover but the sky, Not light as here ; so reason's glimmering ray... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 602 pages
...evincing a decided skeptical spirit. The opening of this poem is singularly solemn and majestic : — Dim as the borrow'd beams of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wandering travellers, Is Reason to tho soul ; and as on high Those rolling fires discover but the sky, Not light us here ; so Reason's... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - English language - 1851 - 1502 pages
...bor'row'd beams' of moon' and stars To lone'Iy, wea'ry, wan'd'ring travelers' Is Reason to the sonl ! ǽ ￂ Ѹ as here ; so Reason's glimmering ray Was lent, not to assure our doubtful way, But guide us upward... | |
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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,... 
