 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,...  Select Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Page 174by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 351 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1904 - 642 pages
...golden words of Edmund Spenser, in his Hyme in Honour of Beautie — "So every Spirit as it is most pure, And hath in it the more of heavenly light, So it the fairer body both procure • To habit in, and it more fairly dight With ehereful grace and amiable sight. For of... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1921 - 580 pages
...character; all condition, of the quality of the life; all harmony, of health; (and, for this reason, a perception of beauty should be sympathetic, or proper,...wise Spenser teaches: — "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,... | |
 | William Thomas Young - 1923 - 328 pages
...that it may well be scene A pallace fit for such a virgin Queene. 260 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 ;... | |
 | Edward Herbert Baron Herbert of Cherbury - 1923 - 226 pages
...fair body. Cp. Spenser, Hymne in Honour of Seautie, 1. 127 et seq. : 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 ... For of the soule the bodie forme doth take : . . . Therefore when-ever... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - 1923 - 238 pages
...trim, that it may well be seene, 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 130 With chearefull grace and amiable sight.... | |
 | Edwin Greenlaw, Clarence Stratton - 1922 - 648 pages
...quotes Spenser, the great English poet who lived in Shakespeare's time: 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 [dwell] in, and it more fairly dight [dress] With cheerful grace and amiable sight. For of the soul... | |
 | Frank Harris - 1924 - 354 pages
...poets, named Spenser," I responded, "has given the true reason." I repeated to her the lines: "And every spirit, as it is more pure, And hath in it the more of Heavenly Light, Lo! it the fairer body doth procure To habit in " "It isn't true," she interrupted. "I know aIf it... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1925 - 412 pages
...LORD EDWARD THURLOW. BEAUTY. FROM "HYMN IN HONOR. OF BEAUTY." So every spirit, as it is most puro, And hath in it the more of heavenly light, So it the fairer body doth procure To habit in, antl 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
...of character; all condition, of the quality of the life; all harmony, of health; and for this reason a perception of beauty should be sympathetic, or proper...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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1983 - 1196 pages
...character; all condition, of the quality of the life; all harmony, of health; (and, for this reason, a perception of beauty should be sympathetic, or proper...wise Spenser teaches: — "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,... | |
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