 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
 | Edmund Spenser - 1878 - 648 pages
...soveraine might Temper so trim, that it may well be seene 105 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, 1 Eft, afterwards. 2 Enraced, implanted So it the fairer bodie doth procure To habit in, and it more... | |
 | Alexander Balloch Grosart - Dissenters, Religious - 1879 - 408 pages
...dulcet a piece of music as our language possesses — Spenser's Hymn in Honour of Beauty : — " 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 is more fairely dight With chearefull grace and amiable sight :... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1879 - 454 pages
...effect, 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 face and amiable sight. For of... | |
 | 1879 - 796 pages
...undefined body." Spenser appears to be following this when he writes : So every spirit, ae 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,... | |
 | 1879 - 802 pages
...undefined body." Spenser appears to be following this when he writes : So every spirit, aa 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 clight With cheerful grace and amiable sight. For,... | |
 | Charles Lamb - Poetry - 1879 - 672 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 1 Mantua vi misers nimiuw Vicioa Croiuon.e.... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1880 - 1124 pages
...delight shall with delight devour ! LORD EDWARD THURLOW. BEAUTY. PROM "HYMN IN HONOR OF BEAUTY." So ` 72 body doth procure To habit in, and it more fairly dight With cheerful grace ami amiable sight : For... | |
 | James Hain Friswell - Conduct of life - 1880 - 328 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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1880 - 842 pages
...And frames her house, in which she will be placed, Pit fiir herself. But he speculates further: Sro every spirit, as it is most pure. And hath in it the more ot heavenly light, So it the fairer body doth procure To habit in. audit more fairly dight With cheertu!... | |
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