 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,...  A London Encyclopaedia, Or Universal Dictionary of Science, Art, Literature ... - Page 270edited by - 1829Full view - About this book
 | C. P. Bronson - 1845 - 330 pages
...introduced into the compact, but by the actual consent of those, who are parties to the covenant» 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... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - 1845 - 334 pages
...the compact, but by the actual consent of those, who are parties to the covenant. —Every spirit,as it is most pure, And hath in it the more of heavenly 1'ght, So it the fairer body doth procure To habit in, and it more fairly dtp-lit With cheerful grace,... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - 1845 - 396 pages
...the compact, but by the actual con sent of those, who are parties to the covenant Every spirit, ae it is most pure, And hath in it the more of heavenly lightSo it the fairer body doth procure To habit in, and it more fairly diglit With cheerful grace,... | |
 | 1882 - 492 pages
...few instances. It will teach us : here is the often unheeded fact that tie soul makes the body : " 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... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1848 - 468 pages
...opulence, and * 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, So it the fairer body doth procure To habit in, and it more fairly dight With cheerful grace and amiable sight ; For... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1848 - 452 pages
...opulence, and * 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, So it the fairer body doth procure To habit in, and it more fairly dight With cheerful grace and amiable sight ; For... | |
 | Caroline Elizabeth S. Norton (hon. mrs. George.) - 1851 - 990 pages
...from Spenser on board the yacht : that she recollected the 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." But it seemed absurd to remind him of his own compliment ; and although... | |
 | Caroline Sheridan Norton - 1851 - 144 pages
...greater ease than Lady Margaret You need not doubt your own powers. "'And every spirit as it is mnre pure, And hath in it the more of heavenly light ; So it the fairer body doth procure, To habit in.'" David repeated Spenser's beautiful lines in a low, murmuring tone... | |
 | Midland-metropolitan magazine - 1852 - 676 pages
...wrote, for he was an ardent admirer of the bard of The Faerie Queene. We give the stanza : — " So every spirit as it is most pure, And hath in it the more of heavenly light, So it the fairer bodie doth procure, To habit in, and it more fairly dight With chearful grace and amiable sight ; For... | |
 | 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... | |
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