 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,...  Stuart of Dunleath: A Story of the Present Time - Page 29by Caroline Sheridan Norton - 1851 - 129 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Wesley Hales - 1872 - 552 pages
...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... | |
 | Anthologia Anglica - 1873 - 512 pages
...beauty and mental excellence, so charmingly expressed by Spenser — 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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1874 - 584 pages
...grace, It was no thing bequethed us with our place. BEAUTY. CHAUCER. 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... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1875 - 618 pages
...in a hymn in honour of beauty, divine Spenser, platonizing, 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 - 1875 - 584 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 hody doth procure To habit in, and it more fairly dight, With cheerful grace and amiable sight. For,... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - 1876 - 870 pages
...which she will be placed, Fit for herself. But he speculates further : So every spirit, ai it is most Gospel imbathe his soul with the fragrancy of heaven. Then was the sacred Bible sought out of th and it more fairly dight With cheerful grace and amiable sight ; For of the soul the body form doth... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1876 - 478 pages
...effect, in a Hymn in honour of Beauty, divine Spenser platonizing, 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 - 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 - 504 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... | |
 | Rosaline Orme Masson - 1876 - 454 pages
...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 more of heavenly light, So it the fairer body doth procure To habit in, and it more fairly dight4 With cheerful grace and amiable sight ; For of the soul the body form doth... | |
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