 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,...  Treasury of Choice Quotations - Page 25by Treasury - 1869 - 458 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Monthly literary register - 1808 - 658 pages
...nothing, lie took cart however in the course of one ot her progresses to urckcnt to her this petition. I was promised on a time, To have reason for my rhyme ; From that time unto this season, I received not rhyme nor reason. This seasonable remonstrance succeeded and Spi-nser n'rTvcd his originally intended... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1844 - 332 pages
...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, and doth the body make." Here we find ourselves, suddenly, not in a critical speculation, but in a holy place, and should go... | |
 | 1867 - 796 pages
...form which makes'-us feel the truth And the gross matter by a sovereign might Tempers so trim ..... For of the soul the body form doth take ; For soul is form and doth the body make." of it afresh ? And every new embodiment of a known truth must be a new and wider revelation. No man... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1844 - 332 pages
...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, and doth the body make." Here we find ourselves, suddenly, not in a critical speculation, but in a holy place, and should go... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1845 - 396 pages
...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 and doth the body make." But Spenser it is clear never saw Mrs. Conrady. These poets, we find, are no safe guides in philosophy... | |
 | 1847 - 540 pages
...but in dreams, By the first step, dull slumbering on the earth. BULWER'S Richelieu. PHRENOLOGY. 1. For of the soul the body form doth take ; For soul is form, and doth the body make. 2. In vain we fondly strive to trace The soul's reflection in the face ; In vain we dwell on lines... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 pages
...fairer body doth procure To habit in, and it more fairly dight With cheerful grace and amiable sight ; and splenetic, Than dog distraught or monkey sick ; That with more care keep holida Spenser afterwards wrote two religious hymns, to counteract the effect of those on love and beauty,... | |
 | 1847 - 526 pages
...but in dreams, By the first step, dull slumbering on the earth. BOLWER'S Richelieu. PHRENOLOGY. 1. For of the soul the body form doth take ; For soul is form, and doth the body make. 2. In vain we fondly strive to trace The soul's reflection in the face ; In vain we dwell on lines... | |
 | John Mackay Wilson - 1848 - 648 pages
...pension, till hope deferred made his heartsick, and he vented his disappointment in these words — ' I was promised on a time, To have reason for my rhyme : From that time unto this season, I received not rhyme nor reason.' Butler asked for bread, and they gave him a stone. Dryden lived between the... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1848 - 452 pages
...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, and doth the body make." So, also, Surrey to his fair Geraldine : — " The golden gift that Nature did thee give, To fasten... | |
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