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" 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,... "
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Essays: Second Series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1855 - 286 pages
...necessary. The soul mak^s the body, as the wise Spenser teaches : " So every spirit, as it is more pure, And hath in it the more of heavenly light, So it the fairer body doth procure T6 habit in, and it more fairly dight, With cheerful grace and amiable sight. For, of the soul, the...
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The Newchurchman, devoted to the exposition and defence of the ..., Volumes 1-3

1855 - 448 pages
...things beantiful. " The soul makes the body, as the wise Speneer teaehes. So every spirit, as it is more pure And hath in it the 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...
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The Works of Charles Lamb

Charles Lamb - 1856 - 408 pages
...in a hymn in honour of beauty, divine Spenser, platonizing, sings :-— " Every spirit as it is more pure, And hath in it the more of heavenly light, So...take : For soul is form, and doth the body make." But Spenser, it is clear, never saw Mrs, Conrady. These poets, we find, are no safe guides in philosophy...
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Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1856 - 286 pages
...makes the body, as the wise Spenser teaches : " So every spirit, as it is more pure, And hath in it'the more of heavenly light, So it the fairer body doth...doth take, For soul is form, and doth the body make." Here we find ourselves, suddenly, not in a critical speculation, but in a holy place, and should go...
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Great Truths by Great Authors: A Dictionary of Aids to Reflection ...

1856 - 570 pages
...and downcast Eye : The mild Expression spoke a mind In duty firm, composed, resign'd. , — Spenser. EVERY Spirit as it is most pure, And hath in it the...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...
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Very successful!, Volume 1; Volume 177

baroness Rosina Doyle Bulwer- Lytton - 1856 - 376 pages
...hymns thy praise, and 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...
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Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El-Madinah and Meccah

Sir Richard Francis Burton - 1856 - 514 pages
...They will shrive mo 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 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...
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A Collection of Familiar Quotations: With Complete Indices of Authors and ...

John Bartlett - 1856 - 660 pages
...From that time unto this season, I received nor rhyme nor reason. Hymn in Honor of Beauty. Line 132. For of the soul the body form doth take, For soul is form, and doth the Body make. Elegiac on a Friend's Passion for his Astrophell. The lineaments of gospel-books. Mother Hubberd's...
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The Christian Doctrine of Prayer: An Essay

James Freeman Clarke - 1856 - 344 pages
...connection between each man's form and face, and the character of the soul ; as when Spenser says, " For of the soul the body form doth take, For soul is FORM, and doth the body make." Which of these views is correct, I shall not now inquire. It was necessary to mention them, that we...
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Laconics: Or the Best Words of the Best Authors ...

John Timbs - 1856 - 374 pages
...bull's blood, (which the Athenians used to poison withal) to any degree of purity. — Butler. CCCCXXVI. Every spirit as it is most pure And hath in it the more of heavenly hght, So it the fairer body doth procure To habit in, and it more fairly dight With cheerful grace,...
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