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,... Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Page 19by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876Full view - About this book
| 1909 - 540 pages
...of genius. All form is an effect of character; all condition, of the quality of life; all harmony, of health; (and for this reason, a perception of beauty...the necessary. The soul makes the body, as the wise Spense' teaches: — . So every spirit, as it is most pure. And hath in it the more of heavenly light,... | |
| John Churton Collins - 1910 - 172 pages
...the soul from its celestial home and its imprisonment in the body:— " 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. * * * * For of the soul the body form doth take, For soul is form and doth the body make." Then follows... | |
| James Martin Peebles - 1910 - 276 pages
...itself, being the ultimate substance (essence), cannot be evolved: — 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. "Materialistic psychology (a contradiction in the adjective) carries materialism to an extreme, by... | |
| Greville Macdonald - 1910 - 390 pages
...into a couplet which may be remembered along with Hunter's dictum : " 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 is more fairly dight With cheareful grace, and amiable Bight ;... | |
| Edmund Spenser - 1910 - 800 pages
...may well be scene L palhice lit for such a virgin Qucene. So every spirit, as it is most pure, Lnd ha'th in it the more of heavenly light, So it the fairer bodie doth procure "o habit hi, and it more fairely dight Vith chearefull grace and amiable sight ;... | |
| Ida Langdon - 1911 - 212 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 is more fairely dight With chearefull grace and amiable sight.... | |
| S. E. Winbolt - 1912 - 164 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 With chearefull grace and amiable sight ;... | |
| Charles Brodie Patterson - 1915 - 330 pages
...contemplative that the listener becomes truly receptive and enters into the soul of the music. "To every spirit, as it is more pure, And hath in it the more of heavenly light. To it the fairer body doth procure To habit in, and it more fairly dight, With cheerful grace and amiable... | |
| Terrot Reaveley Glover - 1915 - 346 pages
...trim, that it may well be scene 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 With chearefull grace and amiable sight ;... | |
| 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... | |
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