 | English poetry - 1788 - 510 pages
...trim, that it may well be seen 115 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...fairer body doth procure To habit in, and it more iairely dight I jo With chearful grace and amiable sight ; For of the soul the body form doth take;... | |
 | English literature - 1860 - 566 pages
...the sage and serious Spenser,' he deemed the former t fitting casket for the enshrined jewel. ' For every spirit as it is more pure And hath in it the...With cheerful grace and amiable sight. For of the BOU! the body form doth take : For soul is form and doth the body make.' It is perhaps an inevitable,... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1849 - 494 pages
...every spirit, as it is most pure, And hath in it the more of heavenly light, So it the fairer tody doth procure To habit in, and it more fairly dight...sight ; For of the soul the body form doth take ; For soul is form, and doth the body make." (Mark the last two lines !) Waller, also, has it, — " The... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1819 - 360 pages
...hymns on Love and Beauty, he breathes this platonic doctrine. " — — Every spirit, as it is most pure " And hath in it the more of heavenly light,...; " For of the soul the body form doth take, " For soul is form, and doth the body make." So, also, Surrey to his fair Geraldine. " The golden gift that... | |
 | John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1829 - 354 pages
...poison withal) to any degree of purity — Sutler. CCCCXXVI. Every spirit as it is most pure And hath m it the more of heavenly light, So it the fairer body...sight; For of the soul the body form doth take, For soul is form, and doth the body make. Spenser. CCCCXXVII. state of every man, who, in the choice of... | |
 | Charles Lamb - Decision making - 1833 - 308 pages
...judge of architecture. To the same effect, in a Hymn in honour of Beauty, divine Spenser, platonizing, sings : — " Every spirit as it is more pure, And...sight. For of the soul the body form doth take : For soul is form, and doth the body make." But Spenser, it is clear, never saw Mrs. Conrady. These poets,... | |
 | Charles Lamb - Essays - 1835 - 440 pages
...architecture. To the same effect, in a Hymn in honour of Beauty, divine Spencer, platonizing, sings : — 4 " Every spirit as it is more pure, And hath in it the...sight. For of the soul the body form doth take : For soul is form, and doth the body make." But Spenser, it is clear, never saw Mrs. Conrady. These poets,... | |
 | Charles Lamb - English literature - 1836 - 326 pages
...impression, to be forcible, must be simultaneous and undivided. THAT HANDSOME IS THAT HANDSOME DOES. THOSE who use this proverb can never have seen Mrs. Conrady....sight. For of the soul the body form doth take : For soul is form and doth the body make." But Spenser, it is clear, never saw Mrs. Conrady. These poets,... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1836 - 324 pages
...impression, to. be forcible, must be simultaneous and undivided. THAT HANDSOME IS THAT HANDSOME DOES. THOSE who use this proverb can never have seen Mrs. Conrady....heavenly light, So it the fairer body doth procure To hahit in, and it more fairly dight With cheerful grace and amiable sight. For of the soul the body... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1838 - 486 pages
...judge of architecture. To the same effect, in a hymn in honour of beauty, divine Spenser, platonizing, sings : — " Every spirit as it is more pure, And...sight. For of the soul the body form doth take : For soul is form, and doth the body make." But Spenser, it is clear, never saw Mrs. Conrady. These poets,... | |
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Spenser platonising, sings: — -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... 
