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 Christian Examiner - Page 2041863Full view - About this book
| English poetry - 1788 - 510 pages
...trim, that it may well be seen 115 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 iairely dight I jo With chearful grace and amiable sight ; For of the soul the body form doth... | |
| 1792 - 774 pages
...trim, that it may well be feen A palace fit for fuch a virgin queen. So every fpirit, as ii is moft pure, And hath in it the more of heavenly light, So it the fairer body doth procure To habit, and it more fairely dight With chearful grace and amiable fight ; For of the foul the body form doth... | |
| English literature - 1860 - 566 pages
...the sage and serious Spenser,' he deemed the former t fitting casket for the enshrined jewel. ' For every spirit as it is more pure And hath in it the...So it the fairer body doth procure To habit in, and it more fairly dight With cheerful grace and amiable sight. For of the BOU! the body form doth take... | |
| Edmund Spenser - English poetry - 1805 - 594 pages
...that it may well be feene 125 A pallace fit for fuch a virgin queene. So every fpirit, as it is moft pure, And hath in it the more of heavenly light, So it the fairer bodie doth procure To habit in, and it more fairely dight iso With chearfull grace and amiable fight... | |
| New Church gen. confer - 1849 - 494 pages
...the body as a house, with eyes for windows, &c. Spencer has it, — " So 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 With cheerful grace and amiable sight ; For... | |
| Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1819 - 360 pages
...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,...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... | |
| 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 procure , To habit in, and it more fairly dight With cheerful grace, and amiable sight; For of the soul the body form doth take,... | |
| Laconics - 1829 - 358 pages
...(which the Athenians used to poison withal) to any degree of purity.—Butler. 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 amiable sight; For of the soul the body form... | |
| Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 832 pages
...causeth, full oft, to many, peril and mischanceChaucer. Canterbury TolaSo 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 fairely dight With chearfull grace and amiable sight -,... | |
| Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 820 pages
...participle passive is dight, as dignted in Hudibras is perhaps improper. Every spirit as it is most pure And hath in it the more of heavenly light, So it the fairere body doth procure To habit in, and it more fairly ilighl With cheerful grace, and amiable sight.... | |
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