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
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1855 - 286 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...rests on the foundations of the necessary. The soul mak^s the body, as the wise Spenser teaches : " So every spirit, as it is more pure, And hath in it... | |
| 1855 - 448 pages
...divine that has made all things beantiful. " The soul makes the body, as the wise Speneer teaehes. So every spirit, as it is more pure And hath in it...more of heavenly light, So it the fairer body doth proeure. To habit in, and it more fairly dight With eheerful easenee and amiable sight. For of the... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1856 - 286 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..." 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,... | |
| Sir Richard Francis Burton - 1856 - 514 pages
...short confession will explain. They will shrive mo who believe in inspired Spenser's lines : — " And every spirit, as it is more pure, And hath in it the...light, So it the fairer body doth procure To habit in." The evil came of a " fairer body." I had prepared en cachette a slip of paper, and had hid in my Ihram... | |
| 1856 - 570 pages
...Expression spoke a mind In duty firm, composed, resign'd. , — Spenser. 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 , — Byron. ft HE was a Form of Life and Light, That, seen, became a part of sight , And rose, where'er... | |
| baroness Rosina Doyle Bulwer- Lytton - 1856 - 376 pages
...subscribes to thy ritual as Spenser* wrote it ! — from indeed feeling that 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 fairly delight With chcurful grace and amiable sight; For... | |
| Sir Richard Francis Burton - 1857 - 482 pages
...short confession will explain. They will shrive me who believe in inspired Spenser's lines : — " And every spirit as it is more pure, And hath in it the...light, So it the fairer body doth procure To habit in." * I obtained the following note upon the ceremonies of Wahhabi pilgrimage from one of their princes,... | |
| Sir Richard Francis Burton - 1857 - 484 pages
...short confession will explain. They will shrive me who believe in inspired Spenser's lines : — " And 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." * I obtained the following note upon the ceremonies of Wahhabi pilgrimage... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1857 - 380 pages
...architecture. To the same effect in a Hymn in honor of Beauty, divine Spenser platonizing sings : — -Every spirit as it is more pure, And hath in it the more of heavenly light, * Swift. So it the fairer body doth procure To habit in, and it more fairly dight With cheerful grace... | |
| Edmund Spenser - 1857 - 600 pages
...that it mav well be seeue 125 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 chearfull grace and amiable sight... | |
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