 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
 | Caroline Sheridan Norton - English fiction - 1851 - 144 pages
...greater ease than Lady Margaret You need not doubt your own powers. "'And every spirit as it is mnre pure, And hath in it the more of heavenly light ; So it the fairer body doth procure, To habit in.'" David repeated Spenser's beautiful lines in a low, murmuring tone... | |
 | Midland-metropolitan magazine - 1852 - 676 pages
...wrote, for he was an ardent admirer of the bard of The Faerie Queene. We give the stanza : — " So every spirit as it is most pure, And hath in it the more of heavenly light, So it the fairer bodie doth procure, To habit in, and it more fairly dight With chearful grace and amiable sight ; For... | |
 | Cyclopaedia, Henry Gardiner Adams - 1854 - 762 pages
...for us .— Romans, viii. 26. Your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost .— I. Corinthians, vi. 19. 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... | |
 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland - American literature - 1854 - 348 pages
...shade ; Or that it is but comely composition Of parts well raeasur'd, with meet disposition l -' So, every spirit, as it is most pure, And hath in it the more of heavenly light, So it the fairer bodle doth procure To habit in, and it mure fuirely dight With chearfull grace and amiable sight; For... | |
 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland - American literature - 1854 - 340 pages
...composition Of parts well nieasur'd, with meet disposition 1 •' So, every spirit, as it is most pure, Anil hath in it the more of heavenly light, So it the fairer bodle doth procure To habit in, and It more falrely dight With chearfull grace and amiable sight; For... | |
 | 1855 - 448 pages
...things beantiful. " The soul makes the body, as the wise Speneer teaehes. So every spirit, as it is more pure And hath in it the more of heavenly light, So it the fairer body doth proeure. To habit in, and it more fairly dight With eheerful easenee and amiable sight. For... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd - English literature - 1855 - 624 pages
...in a hymn in honour of beauty, divine Spenser, plalonizing, sings : — " Every spirit as it is more 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... | |
 | baroness Rosina Doyle Bulwer- Lytton - 1856 - 376 pages
...hymns thy praise, and subscribes to thy ritual as Spenser* wrote it ! — from indeed feeling that every spirit, as it is most pure, And hath in it the...fairer bodic doth procure To habit in, and it more fairly delight With chcurful grace and amiable sight; For of the s.mlo the bodic form doth take The... | |
 | Aphorisms and apothegms - 1856 - 570 pages
...and downcast Eye : The mild Expression spoke a mind In duty firm, composed, resign'd. , — Spenser. 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 , — Byron. ft HE was a Form of Life and Light, That, seen, became a... | |
 | Aphorisms and apothegms - 1856 - 372 pages
...bull's blood, (which the Athenians used to poison withal) to any degree of purity. — Butler. CCCCXXVL Every spirit as it is most pure And hath in it the more of heavenly hght, So it the fairer body doth procure To habit in, and it more fairly dight With cheerful grace,... | |
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