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
| 1866 - 424 pages
...soveraine might Temper so trim, that it may well be seene its A pallace fit for such a virgin queene. 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 fairely dight l isc With chearfull grace and amiable sight... | |
| Hubert Ashton Holden - 1866 - 726 pages
...she sleeps well by the sea-shore whereon she loved to dwell. LORD BYRON 815 THE SOUL AND THE BODY 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... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1867 - 576 pages
...a Hymn in honour of Beauty, divine Spenser platonising sings : — • Every spirit ti3 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 face and amiable sight. For of... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1894 - 464 pages
...in a Hymn in honour of Beauty, divine Spenser platonising 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... | |
| American literature - 1867 - 588 pages
...take; For eonl ia form and doth the body make." Spenser declares : " Every spirit ne H is most pnre, And hath in it the more of heavenly light. So it the fairer body doth procure To habit in." Even if we do not wholly believe this, there is in each heart an intuitive... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1867 - 684 pages
...Hymn in honour of Beauty, divine Spenser platonising, sings:— • Every spirit as it in more pare, 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 Bight. For... | |
| Edmund Spenser - English poetry - 1868 - 352 pages
...a sovereign might Temper so trim, that it may well be seen A palace fit for such a virgin queen. 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 dight8 With cheerful grace and amiable sight; For... | |
| Robert Frederick Brewer - 1869 - 88 pages
...our early writers, Chaucer, Spenser, &c., but has found few imitators in more modern poets : — 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... | |
| Edmund Spenser, John Wesley Hales - English poetry - 1869 - 804 pages
...spiritual beauty, of which fair hair and bright eyes are but external expressions. So every spirit, 09 it is most pure And hath in it the more of heavenly light, Bo it the fairer bodle doth procure To habit in, and it more fairely dight With cheat-full grace and... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 592 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,... | |
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