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, and doth Essays - Page 316by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1884 - 538 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1788 - 510 pages
...light, So it the fairer body doth procure To habit in, and it more fairely dight 1 jo With chearful grace and amiable sight; For of the soul the body form doth take; Therefore where-ever that thou dost behold A comely corpse, with beauty fair endewed, 135 Know this... | |
| Thomas Campbell - 1819 - 360 pages
...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...body form doth take, “For soul is form, and doth the body make.” So, also, Surrey to his fair Geraldine. “The golden gift that Nature did thee give,... | |
| John Timbs - 1829 - 354 pages
...more of heavenly light, So it tile fairer body doth procure To habit in, and it more fairly (light With cheerful grace, and amiable sight; For of the...the body form doth take, For soul is form, and doth the body make. Every spirit as it is most pure Sjieiiser. CCCCXXVH. It was said of the learned bishop... | |
| Laconics - 1829 - 358 pages
...the more of heavenly light, So it the fairer body doth procure To habit in, and it more fairly (light With cheerful grace, and amiable sight; For of the...the body form doth take, For soul is form, and doth the body make. • Every spirit as it is most pure Spenser. CCCCXXVH. suue of every man, who, in the... | |
| Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 394 pages
...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 dight With cheerful grace, and amiable sight. On his head his dreadful hat he dight, Which makcth him invisible to sight. ¡In'.. Tale. Let my '!"':... | |
| James Freeman Clarke, William Henry Channing, James Handasyd Perkins - 1838 - 370 pages
...of my religious convictions, if they had to be propped up by an artificial manner of expression. " For of the soul the body form doth take, For soul is form, and doth the body make. " It is well for a preacher when preparing his discourses, always to keep in mind what... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1836 - 326 pages
...-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...the body form doth take : For soul is form and doth the body make." But Spenser, it is clear, never saw Mrs. Conrady. These poets, we find, are no safe... | |
| John Campbell Colquhoun - 1836 - 520 pages
...fluence to the soul, as the poet, Spenser, has expressed their doctrine in the following couplet : " For of the soul the body form doth take ; " For soul is form, and doth the bod/ moke." in which these cases are to be found minutely recorded, it may be almost sufficient... | |
| Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1838 - 486 pages
...sings :— " Every spirit as it is more pure, And hath in it the more or heavenly light, So it the fairer body doth procure To habit in, and it more...the body form doth take : For soul is form, and doth the body make." These poets, we find, are no safe guides in philosophy ; for here, in his very next... | |
| Monthly literary register - 1839 - 720 pages
...Leviathan, by whose side the Norway pilot moors under the Ice—the sun in eclipse, shedding • " For of the soul the body form doth take ; For soul is form, and doth the body make."— Hymn in Honour of Beauty —1323. disastrous twilight over half the nations—the... | |
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