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
| Edmund Spenser - 1876 - 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...heavenly light, So it the fairer body doth procure "Ado™. To habit in, and it more fairly dight3 iso With cheerful grace and amiable sight; For of the... | |
| Education Department,London - 1876 - 1010 pages
...be that even in heavenly places That busy Archer, Love, his arrow tries ? 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. SECTION II. Analyse the passages in group (A) or (B) :— (A) When once her eye Hath met the virtue... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 382 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... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1876 - 740 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... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 380 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... | |
| Gay Wilson Allen, Harry Hayden Clark - 1962 - 676 pages
...necessary. The soul makes the body, as the wise Spenser leaches : — 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... | |
| Kenneth Muir, Philip Edwards - 1977 - 140 pages
...Neoplatonic doctrine. It is expressed in Spenser's Hymne in Honour ofBeautie, 11. 127 flf.: " So euery spirit, as it is most pure. And hath in it the more of heauenly light, So it the fairer bodie doth procure To habit in, and it more fairely dight With chearefull... | |
| David Daiches - 1979 - 268 pages
...weak wings dare not to heaven fly, But like a moldwarp in the earth doth lie. And in the latter: 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... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1983 - 1196 pages
...on the foundations of the necessary. The soul makes the body, as the wise Spenser teaches: — "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... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1995 - 304 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... | |
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