...Hymn in honour of Beauty, divine Spenser platonising, sings:— • Every spirit as it in 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 Bight. For...

...take; For eonl ia form and doth the body make." Spenser declares : " Every spirit ne H is most pnre, And hath in it the more of heavenly light. So it the fairer body doth procure To habit in." Even if we do not wholly believe this, there is in each heart an intuitive...

...by a sovereign might Temper so trim, that it may well be seen A palace fit for such a virgin queen. 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 dight8 With cheerful grace and amiable sight; For...

...by our early writers, Chaucer, Spenser, &c., but has found few imitators in more modern poets : — 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...

...spiritual beauty, of which fair hair and bright eyes are but external expressions. So every spirit, 09 it is most pure And hath in it the more of heavenly light, Bo it the fairer bodle doth procure To habit in, and it more fairely dight With cheat-full grace and...

...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,...

...poem — that the measure is not a mere accident, but the natural and proper vehicle of the thought. " So every spirit, as it is most pure And hath in it...procure To habit in, and it more fairely dight With chearful grace and amiable sight : For of the soule the bodie forme doth take ; For soul is forme,...

...common man — such a Face as gives reality to Spenser's idea, which cannot too often be remembered : ' 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 is more fairly dight With cheerful grace and amiable sight. For...

...intimate connection between corporeal beauty and mental excellence, so charmingly expressed by Spenser — 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...

...cometh our very gentillesse of grace, It was no thing bequethed us with our place. CHAUCER. BEAUTY. 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...