 | John Bell - English poetry - 1777 - 644 pages
...reason's glimm'ring ray J Was leut, not to assure our doubtful way, But guide us upward to a better day. And as those nightly tapers disappear, When day's...hemisphere; So pale grows Reason at Religion's sight ; 10 So dies, and so dissolves in supernat'ral light. Some few, whose lamp shone brighter, have been... | |
 | John Dryden, Thomas Park - 1808 - 374 pages
...glimmering ray ) Was lent, not to assure our doubtful way, /But guide us upward to a better day. 1 And as those nightly tapers disappear When day's bright...Some few, whose lamp shone brighter, have been led Prom canse to canse, to Nature's secret head, And found that one first principle must be ; But what,... | |
 | 1809 - 402 pages
...here; so reason's glimm'riug ray 1 Was lent not to assure our doubtful way, V But guide us upward to n better day. J And as those nightly tapers disappear...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... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1809 - 604 pages
...reason's glimm'nng rayn Mas lent not to assure our doubtful way, V But guide us upward to a belter your secret still in Chloe's car ; But none of Chloe's...Of all her dears she never "slander1 d one, • , si^ht ; So dies, and so dissolves in supernit'ral light. Snmet'ew.whoselampshonebrighttr.havcbeciilcd... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 654 pages
...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 When day's bright...So pale grows Reason at Religion's sight; So dies, anil so dissolves in supernatural light. Some few, whose lamp shone brighter, have been led From cause... | |
 | England - 1820 - 774 pages
...glimmering ray Was lent not to assure our doubtful way, But guide us upward to a better day. And as these nightly tapers disappear When day's bright Lord ascends our hemisphere, So pale grow's rea&on at religion's »ight, So dies, and so dissolves in supernatural light." IMlgiaLaiel.... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1819 - 644 pages
...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 When day's bright...hemisphere; 'So pale grows Reason at Religion's sight; ~lSo dies, and so dissolves in supernatural light. Some few, whoso lamp shone brighter, have been led... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1819 - 412 pages
...guide us 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 - 1820 - 832 pages
...lent, not to assure our doubtful way, But guide us upward to a better day. And as those nightly tnpcrs l creatures from thee Henceforth ; lest that too heavenly...persisted happy ; had not thy pride And wandering vanity, hare been led From cause to cause, to Nature's secret head j And found, that one first principle must... | |
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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 our hemisphere ; So pale grows Reason at Religion's sight ; So dies, and so dissolves in supernatural... 
