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,... Autumn Hours and Fireside Reading - Seite 77von Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1854 - 311 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| John Timbs - 1856 - 374 Seiten
...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,... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1856 - 408 Seiten
...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 it the fairer body doth procure To habit in, and it more fairly dight "With cheerful grace and amiable sight. For... | |
| Sir Richard Francis Burton - 1856 - 514 Seiten
...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... | |
| Edmund Spenser - 1857 - 600 Seiten
...soverame nii^ht Temper so trim, 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... | |
| Sir Richard Francis Burton - 1857 - 484 Seiten
...They will shrive me 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 hody doth procure To habit in." * I obtained the following note upon the ceremonies of Wahhabi pilgrimage... | |
| Frederick Saunders - 1859 - 432 Seiten
...attachment, or reads the secret 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... | |
| Edward Young - 1860 - 416 Seiten
...soveraine might Temper so trim, that it may well be seene 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 l iso With chearfull grace and amiable sight... | |
| Edward Falkener - 1860 - 408 Seiten
...believed beauty, more especially of the female form and countenance, to be indicative of goodness. " 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." Spenser. He alone was esteemed beautiful, who joined a 1 The above... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1860 - 286 Seiten
...necessary. The soul 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,... | |
| Henry Southgate - 1862 - 774 Seiten
...than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and the beholder. Zimmerman. BEAUTY— of Body and Soul. 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 ; For of the soul the body form doth take ; For soul is form, and doth... | |
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