 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
 | 1856 - 570 pages
...Expression spoke a mind In duty firm, composed, resign'd. , — Spenser. 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 , — Byron. ft HE was a Form of Life and Light, That, seen, became a part of sight , And rose, where'er... | |
 | 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 procure To habit in, and it more fairly dight, With cheerful grace and amiable sight. For, of the soul, the body form doth... | |
 | baroness Rosina Doyle Bulwer- Lytton - 1856 - 376 pages
...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... | |
 | Sir Richard Francis Burton - 1857 - 482 pages
...at the tent ? A short confession will explain. They will shrive me 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." * I obtained the following note upon the ceremonies of Wahhabi pilgrimage from one of their princes,... | |
 | Sir Richard Francis Burton - 1857 - 484 pages
...at the tent ? A short confession will explain. They will shrive me who believe in inspired Spenser's lines : — " And every spirit as it is more pure,...in it the more of heavenly light, So it the fairer hody doth procure To habit in." * I obtained the following note upon the ceremonies of Wahhabi pilgrimage... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1857 - 380 pages
...architecture. To the same effect in a Hymn in honor of Beauty, divine Spenser platonizing sings : — -Every spirit as it is more pure, And hath in it the more of heavenly light, * Swift. So it the fairer body doth procure To habit in, and it more fairly dight With cheerful grace... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - 1857 - 600 pages
...that it mav well be seeue 125 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 130 With chearfull grace and amiable sight... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1857 - 564 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 more or heavenly light, * So it the fairer body doth procure To habit in, and it more fairly dight With... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1859 - 432 pages
...of his rejection, long before it is promulgated by the tardy tongue." * " 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... | |
 | Edmund Spenser, George Gilfillan - 1859 - 348 pages
...trim, that it may well be seen A palace fit for such a virgin queen. 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 dight3 With cheerful grace and amiable sight; For of the soul the body form doth... | |
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