So every spirit, as it is most pure, And hath in it the more of heavenly light, So it the fairer body doth procure To habit in, and it more fairly dight, With cheerful grace and amiable sight. For, of the soul, the body form doth take, For soul is form,... A London Encyclopaedia, Or Universal Dictionary of Science, Art, Literature ... - Page 270edited by - 1829Full view - About this book
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - Philosophy - 1983 - 1196 pages
...on the foundations of the necessary. The soul makes the body, as the wise Spenser teaches: — "So every spirit, as it is most pure, And hath in it the more of heavenly light, So it the fairer body doth procure To habit in, and it more fairly dight, With cheerful grace and amiable sight. For,... | |
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