 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
 | Charles Lamb - 1879 - 672 Seiten
...in a hymn in honour of beauty, divine 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 1 Mantua vi misers nimiuw Vicioa Croiuon.e.... | |
 | 1879 - 802 Seiten
...undefined body." Spenser appears to be following this when he writes : So every spirit, aa 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 clight With cheerful grace and amiable sight. For,... | |
 | Robert Henry Elliot - 1879 - 376 Seiten
...recollections Which, be they what they may Are yet the fountain light of all our day. ' Then Spenser says:— So every spirit, as it is most pure, And hath in it more of heavenly light, So it the fairer body doth procure To habit in. ' In this childhood of our... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1880 - 1124 Seiten
...and delight shall with delight devour ! LORD EDWARD THURLOW. BEAUTY. PROM "HYMN IN HONOR OF BEAUTY." 82` 72 body doth procure To habit in, and it more fairly dight With cheerful grace ami amiable sight : For... | |
 | James Hain Friswell - 1880 - 328 Seiten
...words, that inner Platonism which we all believe, or have believed at one time of our lives : — ' ' 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." Then comes his peculiar philosophy — not only his, but, as we have... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1880 - 408 Seiten
...or foul by the habitual character of our thoughts. He says : " So every spirit, as it it more pare, 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... | |
 | Gay Wilson Allen, Harry Hayden Clark - 1962 - 676 Seiten
...necessary. The soul makes the body, as the wise Spenser leaches : — 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,... | |
 | Kenneth Muir, Philip Edwards - 1977 - 140 Seiten
...Neoplatonic doctrine. It is expressed in Spenser's Hymne in Honour ofBeautie, 11. 127 flf.: " 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... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 268 Seiten
...his weak wings dare not to heaven fly, But like a moldwarp in the earth doth lie. And in the latter: 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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1983 - 1196 Seiten
...rests 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 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,... | |
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