 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
 | Charles Lamb - 1894 - 464 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 With cheerful grace and amiable sight. For of the soul the body form doth... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1867 - 582 pages
...a Hymn in honour of Beauty, divine Spenser platonising sings : — • Every spirit ti3 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 the soul the body form doth take... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1867 - 684 pages
...Hymn in honour of Beauty, divine Spenser platonising, sings:— • Every spirit as it in more pare, 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 Bight. For of *he soul the body form doth... | |
 | 1867 - 588 pages
...take; For eonl ia form and doth the body make." Spenser declares : " Every spirit ne H is most pnre, And hath in it the more of heavenly light. So it the fairer body doth procure To habit in." Even if we do not wholly believe this, there is in each heart an intuitive conviction that "actions,... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - 1868 - 352 pages
...a sovereign might Temper so trim, that it may well be seen A palace fit for such a virgin queen. So 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 dight8 With cheerful grace and amiable sight; For of the soul the body form doth... | |
 | Robert Frederick Brewer - 1869 - 88 pages
...our early writers, Chaucer, Spenser, &c., but has found few imitators in more modern poets : — So 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... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1869 - 852 pages
...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 hody doth procure To habit in, and it more fairly dight With cheerful grace and amiable sight. For... | |
 | Edmund Spenser, John Wesley Hales - 1869 - 804 pages
...spiritual beauty, of which fair hair and bright eyes are but external expressions. So every spirit, 09 it is most pure And hath in it the more of heavenly light, Bo it the fairer bodle doth procure To habit in, and it more fairely dight With cheat-full grace and... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 592 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 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... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1872 - 864 pages
...; From that time unto this season, I received nor rhyme nor reason. Lines on his promised Pension.^ For of the soul the body form doth take, For soul is form, anrl doth the body make. Hymn in Honour of Beauty, Line 132. A sweet attractive kinde of grace, A full... | |
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