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 : I For soul is form,... On the Margin: Notes and Essays - Seite 95von Aldous Huxley - 1923 - 218 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| 1881 - 410 Seiten
...symbolical history of humanity. Spenser's platonic theory concerning the harmony of the body and soul — "Every spirit as it is most pure And hath in it the...So it the fairer body doth procure To habit in—" may be dismissed as untenable in view of the Oleopatras, Phrynes, and Nell Gwynnes ; but the mind and... | |
| 1881 - 476 Seiten
...of a beautiful soul. The soul takes precedence of the body, and shapes the body to its own likeness. Every spirit as it is most pure, And hath in it the...light, So it the fairer body doth procure To habit in For the soul the body form doth take, For soul is form, and doth the body make. Every one knows that... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1881 - 472 Seiten
...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, So...body doth procure To habit in, and it more fairly dis:ht 1 ^ O With cheerful grace and amiable sight. For of the soul the body form doth take: For soul... | |
| Duchess - 1881 - 348 Seiten
...earthy. Yet in this he spoke the truth, echoing Spenser (though unconsciously), where he says, — " 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. For of the soulo the bodie forme doth take, For soule is forme and... | |
| Epes Sargent - 1882 - 1002 Seiten
...a soverain might Temper so trim, that it may well be seen A palace lit for such a virgin queen. So a bo slaves, While tho earth bears a p'.aut or lúe...sea rolls its waves. Should the tempest of war over proeuro To habit in, and it more fairly dight With cheerful grace and amiable sight ; For of the soul... | |
| Charles Huntington Whitman - 1919 - 282 Seiten
...is a sign to know the gentle blood, HB 139140; for all that's good is beautiful and fair, HHB 133; for of the soul the body form doth take; for soul is FOUNTAIN(S) form and doth the body make, HB 132-133; mentioned, 2.9.1; 2.12.23.1-5; 6.3.1; 6.3. 2.1-2;... | |
| Edith Sitwell - 1920 - 196 Seiten
...wind Of her loud singing. A poet in the pit Jots down, in tears, the words of her Siren song. " So every spirit as it is most pure, And hath in it the more of heavenly light, Theatre of Varieties. So it the rarer body doth procure To habit in, and is more fairly dight With... | |
| Marie Carmichael Stopes - 1920 - 264 Seiten
...burning desire to bring light into dark places. MCS Radiant Motherhood CHAPTER I The Lover's Dream So every spirit, as it is most pure, And hath in it the more of heauenlv light, So it the fairer bodie doth procure To habit in, and it more fairely dight, With chearefull... | |
| John Milton Berdan - 1920 - 610 Seiten
...might Tempers so trim, that it may well be scene, A pallace fit for such a virgin Qucene. So euery spirit, as it is most pure, And hath in it the more of heauenly light, So it the fairer bodie doth procure To habit in, and it more fairely dight With chearefull... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1921 - 584 Seiten
...on the foundations of the necessary. The soul makes the body, as the wise Spenser teaches : — "So every spirit, as it is most pure. And hath in it the...For, of the soul, the body form doth take, For soul ig form, and doth the body make." Here we find ourselves, suddenly, not in the pleasant walks of critical... | |
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