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" 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 manual of English prosody - Page 36
by Robert Frederick Brewer - 1869
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The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 6

1867 - 796 pages
...form which makes'-us feel the truth And the gross matter by a sovereign might Tempers so trim ..... For of the soul the body form doth take ; For soul is form and doth the body make." of it afresh ? And every new embodiment of a known truth must be a new and wider revelation. No man...
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Specimens of the British Poets

Thomas Campbell - 1844 - 846 pages
...equally silent.] ф In one of Spenser's hymns on Love and Beauty, he breathes this Platonic doctrine. " Every spirit, as it is most pure And hath in it the more of heavenly light, 60 it the fairer body doth procure To habit in, and it more fairly dight With cheerful grace and amiable...
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Elocution; Or, Mental and Vocal Philosophy: Involving the Principles of ...

C. P. Bronson - 1845 - 330 pages
...introduced into the compact, but by the actual consent of those, who are parties to the covenant» Every spirit, as it is most pure, And hath in it the...form doth take, For soul is form, and doth the body moke. For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey. This pleasing anxious being e'er resigned, Left the warm...
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The Essays of Elia: First Series - Second Series

Charles Lamb - 1845 - 396 pages
...sings : — -Every spirit as it is more pure, And hath in it the more of heavenly light, •Swift. So it the fairer body doth procure To habit in, and...doth take : For soul is form and doth the body make." But Spenser it is clear never saw Mrs. Conrady. These poets, we find, are no safe guides in philosophy...
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Elocution, Or, Mental and Vocal Philosophy: Involving the Principles of ...

C. P. Bronson - 1845 - 390 pages
...actual con sent of those, who are parties to the covenant Every spirit, as it is most pure, And halh in it the more of heavenly light So it the fairer body doth procure To habit in, and it more fairly diglit With cheerful grace, and amiable flight; For of the soul, the body form doth take. For soul...
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The Essays of Elia: First Series - Second Series

Charles Lamb - 1845 - 398 pages
...sings : — -Every spirit as it is more pure, And hath in it the more of heavenly light, •Swift. So it the fairer body doth procure To habit in, and...fairly dight With cheerful grace and amiable sight, B'or of the soul the body form doth take : / For soul is form and doth the body make." But Spenser...
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Elocution, Or, Mental and Vocal Philosophy: Involving the Principles of ...

C. P. Bronson - 1845 - 396 pages
...the compact, but by the actual con sent of those, who are parties to the covenant Every spirit, ae it is most pure, And hath in it the more of heavenly lightSo it the fairer body doth procure To habit in, and it more fairly diglit With cheerful grace,...
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Elocution, Or, Mental and Vocal Philosophy: Involving the Principles of ...

C. P. Bronson - 1845 - 334 pages
...the compact, but by the actual consent of those, who are parties to the covenant. —Every spirit,as it is most pure, And hath in it the more of heavenly 1'ght, So it the fairer body doth procure To habit in, and it more fairly dtp-lit With cheerful grace,...
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The Churchman's companion

1882 - 492 pages
...few instances. It will teach us : here is the often unheeded fact that tie soul makes the body : " So every spirit as it is most pure, And hath in it...With cheerful grace and amiable sight. For of the *oul, the body form doth take, For soul i* form and doth the body make." It will comfort us : is there...
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Cyclopaedia of English Literature: First period, from the earliest times to 1400

Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 pages
...(peculates further— 1 Bo every spirit, aa it la most pare, And hath in it the more of heavenly light, Bo o whom our knight, by fast insiiuct Of wit and temper, was so link" J, As if afterwards wrote two religious hymns, to counteract the effect of those on love and beauty, but though...
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