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" 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,... "
The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser - Page 15
by Edmund Spenser - 1839
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A London Encyclopaedia, Or Universal Dictionary of Science, Art ..., Volume 7

Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 820 pages
...to signify the past ; the participle passive is dight, as dignted in Hudibras is perhaps improper. Every spirit as it is most pure And hath in it the more of heavenly light, So it the fairere body doth procure To habit in, and it more fairly ilighl With cheerful grace, and amiable sight....
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The Last Essays of Elia: Being a Sequel to Essays Published Under ..., Part 2

Charles Lamb - 1833 - 308 pages
...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...
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Essays of Elia

Charles Lamb - 1835 - 440 pages
...a Hymn in honour of Beauty, divine Spencer, platonizing, sings : — 4 " 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...
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Elia, Volume 1

Charles Lamb - 1836 - 324 pages
...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 hahit in, and it more fairly dight With cheerful grace and amiable sight. For...
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The prose works of Charles Lamb, Volume 3

Charles Lamb - 1836 - 326 pages
...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 With cheerful grace and amiable sight. For...
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The Works of Charles Lamb: To which are Prefixed, His Letters, and a Sketch ...

Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1838 - 486 pages
...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...
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The essays of Elia

Charles Lamb - 1840 - 304 pages
...in a Hymn in honour of Beauty, divine Spenser platоnising, sings :— " 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, and it more fairly dight With cheerful grace and amiable sight, For...
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Essays: Second Series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1844 - 332 pages
...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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Essays: Second Series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1844 - 332 pages
...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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Specimens of the British Poets

Thomas Campbell - 1844 - 846 pages
...equally silent.] ф In one of Spenser's 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, 60 it the fairer body doth procure To habit in, and it more fairly dight With cheerful grace and amiable...
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