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,... Stuart of Dunleath - Page 280by Caroline Elizabeth S. Norton (hon. mrs. George.) - 1851Full view - About this book
| Cyclopaedia, Henry Gardiner Adams - 1854 - 762 pages
...26. Your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost .— I. Corinthians, vi. 19. 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... | |
| Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1854 - 348 pages
...comely composition Of parts well raeasur'd, with meet disposition l -' So, every spirit, as it is most pure, And hath in it the more of heavenly light, So it the fairer bodle doth procure To habit in, and it mure fuirely dight With chearfull grace and amiable sight; For... | |
| Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1854 - 340 pages
...composition Of parts well nieasur'd, with meet disposition 1 •' So, every spirit, as it is most pure, Anil hath in it the more of heavenly light, So it the fairer bodle doth procure To habit in, and It more falrely dight With chearfull grace and amiable sight; For... | |
| Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1855 - 624 pages
...architecture. To the same effect, in a hymn in honour of beauty, divine Spenser, plalonizing, sings : — " Every spirit as it is more pure, And hath in it the...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... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1855 - 286 pages
...rests on the foundations of the 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...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... | |
| 1855 - 448 pages
...divine that has made all 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... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1855 - 284 pages
...of the necessary. The soul makes the body, as the wise Spenser teaches : " So every spirit, as it ia more 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... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1855 - 798 pages
...beauty, divine Spenser, platonizing, sings : — " Every spirit as it is more pure, And hath in il 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... | |
| Sir Richard Francis Burton - 1856 - 514 pages
...at the tent ? A short confession will explain. They will shrive mo who believe in inspired Spenser's lines : — " And every spirit, as it is more pure,...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... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1856 - 408 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...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... | |
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