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" 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 fairely dight With chearefull grace and amiable sight ; For of the soule the bodie forme doth take ; For soule... "
Essays and English Traits - Page 173
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1909 - 493 pages
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The British Poets, Volume 5

1866 - 424 pages
...soveraine might Temper so trim, that it may well be seene its A pallace fit for such a virgin queene. 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 fairely dight l isc With chearfull grace and amiable sight...
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Works: Including His Most Intesesting Letters

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...more fairly dight With cheerful grace and amiable Bight. For of *he soul the body form doth take : For wnil is form and doth the body make. But Spenser,...
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The essays of Elia. [Followed by] The last essays of Elia

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...To habit in, and it more fairly dight With cheerful face and amiable sight. For of the soul the body form doth take : For soul is form, and doth the body...
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Beadle's Monthly, Volume 3

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,...
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The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser: With Memoir and Critical ..., Volume 5

Edmund Spenser - 1868 - 352 pages
...by 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...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 take ; For soul is...
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The Essays of Elia

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...
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Complete Works of Edmund Spenser

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...
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Verse

Andrew Marvell - 1872 - 562 pages
...common man — such a Face as gives reality to Spenser's idea, which cannot too often be remembered : ' Every spirit as it is most pure, And hath in it the...So it the fairer body doth procure To habit in, and is more fairly dight With cheerful grace and amiable sight. For of the soul the body form doth take:...
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Longer English poems, with notes, ed. by J.W. Hales, Issue 440

John Wesley Hales - 1872 - 552 pages
...poem — that the measure is not a mere accident, but the natural and proper vehicle of the thought. " 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 fairely dight With chearful grace and amiable sight : For...
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The Complete Works in Verse and Prose of Andrew Marvell, Volume 1

Andrew Marvell - 1872 - 564 pages
...cannot too often he remembered : ' Even.' spirit as it is moat pure. And halh in ii the more of heaveuly light, So it the fairer body doth procure To habit in, and is more fairly dight With cheerful grace and amiable right. For of the soul the bodv form dolh take:...
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