 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
 | 1881 - 476 pages
...soul takes precedence of the body, and shapes the body to its own likeness. 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 the soul the body form doth take, For soul is form, and doth the body make. Every one knows that... | |
 | Duchess - 1881 - 348 pages
...truth, echoing Spenser (though unconsciously), where he says, — " 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 soulo the bodie forme doth take, For soule is forme and... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1882 - 1002 pages
...trim, that it may well be seen A palace lit for such a virgin queen. So every spirit, as it is most bears a p'.aut or lúe sea rolls its waves. Should the tempest of war over proeuro To habit in, and it more fairly dight With cheerful grace and amiable sight ; For of the soul... | |
 | 1883 - 658 pages
...Truths and Facts about the Bible. THE SOUL THE FORMER OF THE BODY. " So ever)- 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 soule the bodie forme doth take, For soule is forme, and doth the bodie make." — Spenser.... | |
 | 1883 - 884 pages
...IMOGEN, PRINCESS OF BRITAIN. "Alas, poor princess, Thou divine Imogen !" " 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 soule the bodie forme doth take, For soule is forme, and doth the bodie make." — SPENSER.... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1883 - 924 pages
...IMOGEN, PRINCESS OF BRITAIN. "Alas, poor princess, Thou divine Imogen !" " 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 soule the bodie forme doth take, For soule is forme, and doth the bodie make." — SPENSER.... | |
 | 1883 - 886 pages
...BRITAIN. " Alas, poor princess, Thou divine Imogen ! " " Sn every spirit, as it is most pure, And hath ¡u it the more of heavenly light, So it the fairer body doth procure To habit in : Fur of the soule the bodie forme doth take. For soule is forme, and doth the bodie make." — Sl'KSSER.... | |
 | 1928 - 1054 pages
...demanded of me! But I do not hold with the test's quotation from Spenser, "So every spirit, as it is most pure. And hath in it the more of Heavenly light, So it the fairer hodie doth procnre To habit in," etc., for that I do believe it is less difficult to build more stately... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1884 - 234 pages
...genius. All form is an effect of character ; all condition, of (he quality of tlie life ; all harmony, of health ; (and, for this reason, a perception of...— " So every spirit, as it is more pure, And hath ill it the more of heavenly light, So it the fairer body doth procure To habit in, and it more fairly... | |
 | American Physical Education Association - 1885 - 690 pages
...character and the purer the soul, so much the more refined and elevated will be the body itself. " For every spirit as it is more pure And hath in it the...light ; So it the fairer body doth procure to habit it, And is more seemly dight with cheerful grace and amiable sight. For of the soul the body form doth... | |
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