 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 36by Robert Frederick Brewer - 1869Full view - About this book
 | 1847 - 540 pages
...but in dreams, By the first step, dull slumbering on the earth. BULWER'S Richelieu. PHRENOLOGY. 1. For of the soul the body form doth take ; For soul is form, and doth the body make. 2. In vain we fondly strive to trace The soul's reflection in the face ; In vain we dwell on lines... | |
 | 1847 - 526 pages
...but in dreams, By the first step, dull slumbering on the earth. BOLWER'S Richelieu. PHRENOLOGY. 1. For of the soul the body form doth take ; For soul is form, and doth the body make. 2. In vain we fondly strive to trace The soul's reflection in the face ; In vain we dwell on lines... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 pages
...To habit in. and it more fitlrly (light With cheerful pntce and amiable sight ; For of the soul tin- ow Of goodliest trees, loaden with fairest fruit, Blossoms and fruits at afterwords wrnte two religious hymns, to counteract the effect of those on love and beauty, but though... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1848 - 468 pages
...opulence, and * 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...doth take, For soul is form, and doth the body make." So, also, Surrey to his fair Geraldine : — " The golden gift that Nature did thee give, To fasten... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1848 - 452 pages
...opulence, and * 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...doth take, For soul is form, and doth the body make." So, also, Surrey to his fair Geraldine : — " The golden gift that Nature did thee give, To fasten... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1850 - 710 pages
...further — • So every spirit, as it is most pure. And li, n li in it the more of heavenly light, 60 -.ml the body form doth take i For soul is form, and doth the body make. Spenser afterwards wrote two... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1851 - 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... | |
 | Caroline Elizabeth S. Norton (hon. mrs. George.) - 1851 - 990 pages
...from Spenser on board the yacht : that she recollected the lines : " And 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." But it seemed absurd to remind him of his own compliment ; and although the days in which she had loved... | |
 | Caroline Sheridan Norton - 1851 - 144 pages
...Then she took David to see her schools, and her poor ; proudly and " And 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 it." But it seemed absurd to remind him of his own compliment, and although the days in which fondly... | |
 | Midland-metropolitan magazine - 1852 - 676 pages
...he wrote, for he was an ardent admirer of the bard of The Faerie Queene. We give the stanza : — " 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 fairly dight With chearful grace and amiable sight ; For... | |
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