 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
 | Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1857 - 564 pages
...architecture. To the same 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 or heavenly light, * So it the fairer body doth procure To habit in, and it more fairly dight With... | |
 | Edward Falkener - 1860 - 408 pages
...especially of the female form and countenance, to be indicative of goodness. " 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." Spenser. He alone was esteemed beautiful, who joined a 1 The above free but happy translation is given... | |
 | Edward Young - 1860 - 416 pages
...that it may well be seene 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 l iso With chearfull grace and amiable sight... | |
 | Henry Southgate - 1862 - 774 pages
...both the holder and the beholder. Zimmerman. BEAUTY— of Body and Soul. 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 ; For of the soul the body form doth take ; For soul is form, and doth the body make. ¡Spenser. BEAUTY-Celeetiality... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - 1862 - 530 pages
...that it may well be feene i*i A pallace fit for fuch a virgin Queene. So every fpirit, as it is moft 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 >i° With chearefull grace and amiable fight... | |
 | James Hain Friswell - 1864 - 376 pages
...which we all believe, or have believed at one time of our lives : — " 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." Then comes his peculiar philosophy — not only his, but, as we have said, ours and all the world's... | |
 | James Hain Friswell - 1864 - 340 pages
...which we all believe, or have believed at one time of our lives :— " 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." Then comes his peculiar philosophy—not only his, but, as we have said, ours and all the world's :—... | |
 | Eliza Woodson Burhans Farnham - 1864 - 330 pages
...and others of like nature, and it will be seen, as Spenser says, that : " 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. For of the Soul the Body form doth take : For Soul is form, and doth the Body make." CHAPTER III. HISTOKIC... | |
 | William Patrick Wilkie - 1865 - 220 pages
...every part.' So at least says Dante, and Spenser has a similar fancy : ' 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.' " " That 's nonsense, you know, papa» You're joking, aren't you ? Some of the nicest people we visit... | |
 | 1866 - 424 pages
...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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