 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
 | Francis Fulford (bp. of Montreal.) - 1859 - 484 pages
...rudest mind was refined by the frequent contemptation of such harmony, perfection, and grace : — ' For of the Soul the Body form doth take, For Soul is form and doth the Body make.' The compositions of Praxiteles were often inspired by Phryne, the famous courtesan, who was a miracle... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1860 - 286 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...doth take, For soul is form, and doth the body make." Here we find ourselves, suddenly, not in a critical speculation, but in a holy place, and should go... | |
 | Edward Falkener - 1860 - 408 pages
...believed beauty, more especially of the female form and countenance, to be indicative of goodness. " Every spirit, as it is most pure, And hath in it the...light, So it the fairer body doth procure To habit in." Spenser. He alone was esteemed beautiful, who joined a 1 The above free but happy translation is given... | |
 | Edward Young - 1860 - 416 pages
...soveraine might Temper so trim, that it may well be seene 125 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 iso With chearfull grace and amiable sight... | |
 | D R. M'Nab - 1860 - 296 pages
...called, its expression, or an image it is conceived to show of internal moral dispositions. BLAIR. For of the soul the body form doth take ; For soul is form, and doth the body make. SPENCER. Never teach false morality. How exquisitely absurd to tell girls that beauty is of no value... | |
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland - 1861 - 350 pages
...all try for it, and we shall find our highest account in trying. LESSON VI. MISTAKES OF PENANCE. " For of the soul the body form doth take, For soul is form and doth the body make." SPENSER. " Can sackcloth clothe a fault or hide a shame? Or do thy hands make Heaven a recompense, By strewing... | |
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland - 1861 - 356 pages
...all try for it, and we shall find our highest account in trying. LESSON VI. MISTAKES OF PENANCE. " For of the soul the body form doth take, For soul is form and doth the body make." SPENSH. " Can sackcloth clothe a fault or hide a shame? Or do thy hands make Heaven a recompense, By... | |
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland - 1861 - 358 pages
...for it, and we shall find our highest account in trying. LESSON VI. MISTAKES OF PENANCE. " For of tho soul the body form doth take, • For soul is form and doth tho body make." Sprain. " Can sackcloth clothe a fault or hide a shame? Or do thy hands make Heaven... | |
 | Henry Southgate - 1862 - 774 pages
...than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and the beholder. Zimmerman. BEAUTY— of Body and Soul. Every spirit, as it is most pure, And hath in it the...light,^ So it the fairer body doth procure To habit in ; For of the soul the body form doth take ; For soul is form, and doth the body make. ¡Spenser. BEAUTY-Celeetiality... | |
 | 1862 - 588 pages
...foreign gallery to see illustrated the transforming power of vice upon our physical and moral nature. "Of the soul, the body form doth take, For soul is form, and doth the body make." "That brazen-faced, wanton-looking wreck of womanhood, was once a sweet, modest little girl, that blushed... | |
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