 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
 | Andrew Marvell - 1872 - 562 pages
...common man — such a Face as gives reality to Spenser's idea, which cannot too often be remembered : ' 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 is more fairly dight With cheerful grace and amiable sight. For... | |
 | John Wesley Hales - 1872 - 552 pages
...— that the measure is not a mere accident, but the natural and proper vehicle of the thought. " 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 With chearful grace and amiable sight : For... | |
 | Anthologia Anglica - 1873 - 512 pages
...connection between corporeal beauty and mental excellence, so charmingly expressed by Spenser — 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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American poetry - 1874 - 600 pages
...cometh our very gentillesse of grace, It was no thing bequethed us with our place. CHAUCER. BEAUTY. 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 - 1875 - 618 pages
...in a hymn in honour of beauty, divine Spenser, platonizing, 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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 584 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 hody doth procure To habit in, and it more fairly dight, With cheerful grace and amiable sight. For,... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - 1876 - 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 "Ado™. To habit in, and it more fairly dight3 iso With cheerful grace and amiable... | |
 | Rosaline Orme Masson - English poetry - 1876 - 454 pages
...a soverain might Tempers 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 dight4 With cheerful grace and amiable sight ; For... | |
 | Rosaline Orme Masson - English poetry - 1876 - 454 pages
...a soverain might Tempers 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 dight4 With cheerful grace and amiable sight ; For... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - Authors, English - 1876 - 870 pages
...house, in which she will be placed, Fit for herself. But he speculates further : So every spirit, ai returning Gospel imbathe his soul with the fragrancy of heaven. Then was th body doth procure To habit in, and it more fairly dight With cheerful grace and amiable sight ; For... | |
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