 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 15by Edmund Spenser - 1839Full view - About this book
 | Cyclopaedia, Henry Gardiner Adams - 1854 - 762 pages
...for us .— Romans, viii. 26. Your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost .— I. Corinthians, vi. 19. 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... | |
 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1854 - 340 pages
...composition Of parts well nieasur'd, with meet disposition 1 •' So, every spirit, as it is most pure, Anil hath in it the more of heavenly light, So it the fairer bodle doth procure To habit in, and It more falrely dight With chearfull grace and amiable sight; For... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1855 - 624 pages
...in a hymn in honour of beauty, divine Spenser, plalonizing, 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... | |
 | 1855 - 448 pages
...things beantiful. " The soul makes the body, as the wise Speneer teaehes. So every spirit, as it is more pure And hath in it the more of heavenly light, So it the fairer body doth proeure. To habit in, and it more fairly dight With eheerful easenee and amiable sight. For... | |
 | baroness Rosina Doyle Bulwer- Lytton - 1856 - 376 pages
...hymns thy praise, and subscribes to thy ritual as Spenser* wrote it ! — from indeed feeling that every spirit, as it is most pure, And hath in it the more of heavenly light, So it the fairer bodic doth procure To habit in, and it more fairly delight With chcurful grace and amiable sight; For... | |
 | 1856 - 570 pages
...and downcast Eye : The mild Expression spoke a mind In duty firm, composed, resign'd. , — Spenser. 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 , — Byron. ft HE was a Form of Life and Light, That, seen, became a... | |
 | 1856 - 372 pages
...bull's blood, (which the Athenians used to poison withal) to any degree of purity. — Butler. CCCCXXVL 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,... | |
 | John Timbs - 1856 - 374 pages
...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,... | |
 | Sir Richard Francis Burton - 1856 - 514 pages
...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... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1856 - 408 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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