 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
 | John Wesley Hales - 1889 - 442 pages
...accident, bnt the natnral and proper vehicle of the thonght. " So every spirit, as it is most pnre And hath in it the more of heavenly light, So it the fairer bodie doth procnre To habit in, and it more fairely dight With chearfnl grace and amiable sight ; For... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1890 - 584 pages
...architecture. To the same effect, in a Hymn in honour of Beauty, divine Spenser platonising sings : — Every spirit as it is more pure. And hath in it the...heavenly light, So it the fairer body doth procure To hnbit in, and it more fairly dight With cheerful face and amiable sight. For of tbo soul the body form... | |
 | Helena Faucit Martin (lady) - 1891 - 440 pages
...PEINCESS OF BRITAIN. " Alas, poor princess, Thou divine Imogen ! " " So every spirit, as it is moat 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 goule is forme, and doth the bodie make. " — SPEKSER.... | |
 | 1891 - 556 pages
...beauty is in stars — Shall I forget thy beauty. Ibid, 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 it • * • • » For of the soul the body form doth take; For soul is form and doth the body make.... | |
 | Ellis Ethelmer - 1893 - 258 pages
...Reflecting Plato's teaching, our second worthy Elizabethan poet has said : — " 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." And in our own... | |
 | Robert Frederick Brewer - 1893 - 404 pages
...Chaucer, Spenser, &c., but has found few imitations in modern poets, eg : \, 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 it, and is more fairly dight With cheerful grace and amiable sight ; For of the soul the body form... | |
 | Calendar - 1893 - 414 pages
...must quaile ; O carefull verse ! From The Shephearib Calender. HYMNE 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 ;... | |
 | 1895 - 344 pages
...beautiful, and affects with delight the inmost life of the soul. 22. So every spirit, as it is most pure, And hath in it the more of heavenly light, So it the fairer body doth procure 23. To habit in, and it more fairly dight With cheerful grace and amiable sight ; For of the soul the... | |
 | Henry Wood - 1896 - 298 pages
...shadowpantomime, indicative of the character of realities behind. Spenser aptly puts this thought : — " So every spirit, as it is more pure, And hath in it...more of heavenly light, So it the fairer body doth procour To habit in, and it more fairly dight, With cheerful grace and amiable sight. For of the soul,... | |
 | 1897 - 928 pages
...essence, Till all be made immortal. The poet Spenser most beautifully expresses this truth in saying: So every spirit, as it is more pure, And hath in it...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. This is the... | |
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