| English poetry - 1788 - 510 pages
...light, So it the fairer body doth procure To habit in, and it more iairely dight I jo With chearful grace and amiable sight ; For of the soul the body...doth take; For soul is form, and doth the body make. K iij Therefore where-ever that thou dost behold A comciy corpse, with beauty fairendewed, 135 Know... | |
| English literature - 1860 - 566 pages
...procure To habit in, and it more fairly dight With cheerful grace and amiable sight. For of the BOU! the body form doth take : For soul is form and doth the body make.' It is perhaps an inevitable, but it is not therefore the less a seriojs disadvantage in university life,... | |
| New Church gen. confer - 1849 - 494 pages
...every spirit, as it is most pure, And hath in it the more of heavenly light, So it the fairer tody doth procure To habit in, and it more fairly dight...take ; For soul is form, and doth the body make." (Mark the last two lines !) Waller, also, has it, — " The soul's dark cottaye, batter'd and decay'd,... | |
| New Church gen. confer - 1874 - 608 pages
...revived and to which Swedenborg also inclined. . . . The lines of Spenser express the same thought — * For of the soul the body form doth take. For soul is form aud uoth the body make.' This doctrine of correspondence may notbe the whole truth on a subject confessedly... | |
| Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1819 - 360 pages
...Cudworth. 8 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...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 friends,... | |
| American periodicals - 1826 - 506 pages
...doth procure To habit in, and is more firmly dight With cheerful grace and amiable sight; For of ihe soul the body form doth take, For soul is form, and doth the body make." Whatever applies to the truth of nature, applies to the truth of imitative art—for they are one—so... | |
| John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1829 - 354 pages
...poison withal) to any degree of purity — Sutler. CCCCXXVI. Every spirit as it is most pure And hath m it the more of heavenly light, So it the fairer body...doth take, For soul is form, and doth the body make. Spenser. CCCCXXVII. state of every man, who, in the choice of his employment, balances all the arguments... | |
| Laconics - 1829 - 358 pages
...CCCCXXVI. And hath m it the more of heavenly light, So it the fairer body doth procure To habit iu, and it more fairly dight With cheerful grace, and...doth take, For soul is form, and doth the body make. ——— Every spirit as it is most pure Spenser. CCCCXXVII. slate of every man, who, in the choice... | |
| Charles Lamb - Decision making - 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...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... | |
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