 ... 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, But guide us upward to a better day. And as those nightly tapers disappear...  The Silence and the Voices of God, with Other Sermons - Page 123by Frederic William Farrar - 1874 - 196 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Dryden - 1808 - 382 pages
...upward to a better day. J And as those nightly tapers disappear When day's bright lord ascends our hemisphere ; So pale grows 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 secret head, And... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1808 - 474 pages
...upward to a better day. 3. And as those nightly tapers disappear, When day's bright lord ascends our hemisphere; So pale grows 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 sacred head, And... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 472 pages
...upward to a better day. X And as those nightly tapers disappear, When day's bright lord ascends our hemisphere; So pale grows 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 sacred head, And... | |
 | John Dryden - English literature - 1808 - 480 pages
...upward to a better day. * And as those nightly tapers disappear, When day's bright lord ascends our hemisphere ; So pale grows 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 sacred head, And... | |
 | John Dryden, Thomas Park - 1808 - 374 pages
...upward to a better day. 1 And as those nightly tapers disappear When day's bright lord ascends our hemisphere ; So pale grows Reason at Religion's sight; So dies, and so dissolves in supernatural light. Some few, whose lamp shone brighter, have been led Prom canse to canse, to Nature's secret head, And... | |
 | 1809 - 402 pages
...upward to n better day. J And as those nightly tapers disappear When day's bright lord ascends our hemisphere ; So pale grows reason at religion's sight ; So dies, and so dissolves in supcrnat'ral light. Some few, whose lamp shone brighter, have been led From cause to cause, to nature's... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1819 - 410 pages
...us upward to a better day. And as those nightly tapers disappear When day's bright lord ascends our hemisphere ; So pale grows 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 secret head, And... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1819 - 412 pages
...upward to a better day. And as those nightly tapers disappear I When day's bright lord aseends our hemisphere; So pale grows Reason at Religion's sight ; So dies, and so dissolves in supernatural lighl. Some few, whose lamp shone brighter, have been Iee From eause to eause, to Nature's seeret head,... | |
 | Christianity - 1819 - 818 pages
...better day. And as these nightly tapers disappear, When day's proud Lord ascends bis hemissphere ; So pale grows reason at religion's sight, So dies and so dissolves at supernatural light." Dryilen's Hel. Laid. Nevertheless, to those who, after abdicating their Christian... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 346 pages
...us upward to a better day. And as those nightly tapers disappear When day's bright lord ascends our hemisphere ; So pale grows 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 secret head ; And... | |
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