 | John Dryden - 1891 - 374 ページ
...LAICI. y DIM as the fcorrow'dfJ>eams of moon and stars To lonely, gyeary, wandering travellers, oJs Reason to the soul : and as on high, Those rolling...disappear, When day's bright lord ascends our hemisphere ; Sojjale grows Reason at Religion's sight ; 10 So dies, and so dissolves in supernatural light. Some... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1894 - 688 ページ
...contains passages of much beauty. The opening lines are justly admired : — " Dim as the borrowed beams of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wandering...not to assure our doubtful way, But guide us upward lo a better day. And as those nightly tapers disappear When day's bright lord ascends our hemisphere,... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1895 - 314 ページ
...execution is singularly equable ; but perhaps hardly maintains the elevation of the fine exordium : ' Dim as the borrow'd beams of moon and stars To lonely,...lent, not to assure our doubtful way, But guide us upwards to a better day. ) And as those nightly tapers disappear, When day's bright lord ascends our... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1895 - 314 ページ
...execution is singularly equable ; but perhaps hardly maintains the elevation of the fine exordium : ' Dim as the borrow'd beams of moon and stars To lonely,...sky, Not light us here ; so reason's glimmering ray "i Was lent, not to assure our doubtful way, ! But guide us upwards to a better day. J And as those... | |
 | Kenyon West - 1895 - 588 ページ
...weary, wandering travellers, Is Reason to the soul ; and as on high Those lolling fires discover hut the sky, Not light us here, so Reason's glimmering...doubtful way, But guide us upward to a better day. And as ihose nightly tapers disappear So pale grows Reason at Religion's sight, — When day's bright lord... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1896 - 794 ページ
...Reason's a staff for age when nature's gone : But youth is strong enough to walk alone. DRYDEN. Dim as the borrow'd beams of moon and stars To lonely,...nightly tapers disappear When day's bright lord ascends the hemisphere, So pale grows reason at religion's light, — So dies, and so dissolves in supernatural... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1897 - 666 ページ
...could ne'er be chief; For, spite of him, the weight of business fell On Absalom and wise Achitophel. "RELIGIO LAICI." Dm as the borrow'd beams of moon...the sky, Not light us here; so reason's glimmering r»y Was lent, not to assure our doubtful way, But guide us upward to a better day. And as those nightly... | |
 | Henry Coppée - 1900 - 544 ページ
...mourning black, Shall wait upon his heavy funeral. CHRISTOPHER MARLOW. REASON. DIM as the borrowed beams of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wandering...disappear When day's bright lord ascends our hemisphere, I'LL LOVE NO MORE. F'LL love no more, said I, in sullen mood ; -*- The world is wholly selfish, false... | |
 | John Dryden - 1900 - 760 ページ
...and lormctitoitrs in line 162 of the following poem. RELIGIO LAICI. . ; ; I . ( I DIM as the borrowed beams of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wandering...sky, Not light us here, so Reason's glimmering ray 5 Was lent, not to assure our doubtful way, But guide us upward to a better day. And as those nightly... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1903 - 218 ページ
...purpose. But its opening lines, by a happy simile, are unmistakably poetic : " Dim as the borrowed beams of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wandering...doubtful way, But guide us upward to a better day." 130 A didactic poem, at its best, is apt to be more or less prosaic. In estimating its worth, three... | |
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Dm 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... 
