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,... The Works of Edmund Spenser - Page 234by Edmund Spenser - 1805Full view - About this book
| 1788 - 510 pages
...trim, that it may well be seen 115 A palace fit for such a virgin queen. 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 iairely dight I jo With chearful grace and amiable sight... | |
| 1792 - 774 pages
...Temper fo trim, that it may well be feen A palace fit for fuch a virgin queen. So every fpirit, as ii is moft pure, And hath in it the more of heavenly light, So it the fairer body doth procure To habit, and it more fairely dight With chearful grace and amiable fight ; For of... | |
| 1860 - 566 pages
...Spenser,' he deemed the former t fitting casket for the enshrined jewel. ' For 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... | |
| New Church gen. confer - 1849 - 494 pages
...the body as a house, with eyes for windows, &c. Spencer has it, — " So every spirit, as it is most pure, And hath in it the more of heavenly light, So it the fairer tody doth procure To habit in, and it more fairly dight With cheerful grace and amiable sight ; For... | |
| Thomas Campbell - 1819 - 360 pages
...hymns on Love and Beauty, he breathes this platonic doctrine. " — — 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 ;... | |
| British poets - 1822 - 274 pages
...for such a virgin queene. So every spirit, as it is most pure, And hath in it the more of heaveply light, So it the fairer bodie doth procure To habit in, and it more fairely dight With chearfull grace and amiable sight; For of the soule the bodie forme doth take; For soule is forme,... | |
| Edmund Spenser - 1825 - 450 pages
...virgin queene. So every spirit, as it is most pure, And hath in it the more of heavenly light, So h the fairer bodie doth procure To habit in, and it more fairely dight ISO With cbearfoll grace and amiable sight; For of the soule the bodie forme doth take ; Therefore where-ever... | |
| Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 414 pages
...cauð, full oft, to many, peril and mischance. Chaucer. Canterbury Tola. So every spirit, as it is most pure, And hath in it the more of heavenly light. So...doth procure To habit in, and it more fairely dight With chcarrull grace and amiable sight ; For, of the sonic, the boJie, forme doth take ; For »oule... | |
| Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 832 pages
...causeth, full oft, to many, peril and mischanceChaucer. Canterbury TolaSo every spirit, as it is most pure, And hath in it the more of heavenly light, So it the fairer bodic doth procure To habit in, and it more fairely dight With chearfull grace and amiable sight -,... | |
| Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 820 pages
...participle passive is dight, as dignted in Hudibras is perhaps improper. Every spirit as it is most pure And hath in it the more of heavenly light, So it the fairere body doth procure To habit in, and it more fairly ilighl With cheerful grace, and amiable sight.... | |
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