 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
 | Henry Southgate - 1862 - 774 pages
...than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and the beholder. Zimmerman. BEAUTY— of Body and Soul. 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 ; For of the soul the body form doth take ; For soul is form, and doth... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - English poetry - 1862 - 530 pages
...that it may well be feene i*i A pallace fit for fuch a virgin Queene. So every fpirit, as it is moft pure, And hath in it the more of heavenly light, So it the fairer bodie doth procure To habit in, and it more fairely dight >i° With chearefull grace and amiable fight... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1863 - 288 pages
...necessary. The soul makes the body, as the wise Spenser teaches : " So 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,... | |
 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1863 - 478 pages
...it assumes, these lines of Spenser may have a new meaning for us : " So 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 is more fairly dight, With cheerful grace and amiable sight. For... | |
 | Eliza Woodson Burhans Farnham - Sex differences (Psychology) - 1864 - 330 pages
...with those I have named, and others of like nature, and it will be seen, as Spenser says, that : " 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. For of the Soul the Body form doth take : For Soul is form, and doth... | |
 | James Hain Friswell - 1864 - 340 pages
...words, that inner Platonism which we all believe, or have believed at one time of our lives :— " 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." Then comes his peculiar philosophy—not only his, but, as we have... | |
 | James Hain Friswell - Conduct of life - 1864 - 376 pages
...words, that inner Platonism which we all believe, or have believed at one time of our lives : — " 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." Then comes his peculiar philosophy — not only his, but, as we have... | |
 | Epes Sargent - Social Science - 1864 - 714 pages
...hell, ahead of the Champion." CHAPTER XIV. WAITING FOR THE SUMMONER. " So every spirit, as it i3 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... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1864 - 324 pages
...fast gaining on the Pontiac. CHAPTEE XIV. WAITING FOR THE SUMMONER. So 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... | |
 | William Patrick Wilkie - 1865 - 220 pages
...moulding it Fitly through every part.' So at least says Dante, and Spenser has a similar fancy : ' 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.' " " That 's nonsense, you know, papa» You're joking, aren't you ? Some... | |
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