 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,...  Woman Free - Page 119by Ellis Ethelmer - 1893 - 222 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 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...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... | |
 | 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
...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... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1852 - 684 pages
...of Beauty, divine Spenser platonising, sings : — • Every spirit as it ¡н more pure, And bath n and retrospection soon yielded to the present attraction of the scene ; and the and it more fuirly dight With cheerful grace and amiable sisht. For of the soul the body form doth... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1853 - 716 pages
...placed, Fit for herself.' But he speculates further — ' So every spirit, aa it is most pure, And huth 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... | |
 | Cyclopaedia, Henry Gardiner Adams - 1854 - 762 pages
...for us .— Romans, viii. 26. Your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost .— I. Corinthians, vi. 19. EVERY spirit as it is most pure, And hath in it the...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... | |
 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1854 - 348 pages
...shade ; Or that it is but comely composition Of parts well raeasur'd, with meet disposition l -' So, every spirit, as it is most pure, And hath in it the more of heavenly light, So it the fairer bodle doth procure To habit in, and it mure fuirely dight With chearfull grace and amiable sight; For... | |
 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1854 - 340 pages
...composition Of parts well nieasur'd, with meet disposition 1 •' So, every spirit, as it is most pure, Anil hath in it the more of heavenly light, So it the fairer bodle doth procure To habit in, and It more falrely dight With chearfull grace and amiable sight; For... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1855 - 624 pages
...in a hymn in honour of beauty, divine Spenser, plalonizing, 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 of the soul the body form doth... | |
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