 | English poetry - 1788 - 510 pages
...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 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... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1849 - 494 pages
...light, So it the fairer tody doth procure To habit in, and it more fairly dight With cheerful grace and amiable sight ; For of the soul the body form...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,... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1819 - 360 pages
..." 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...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... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 358 pages
...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 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... | |
 | John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1829 - 354 pages
...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, and doth the body make. Spenser. CCCCXXVII. state of every man, who, in the choice of his employment, balances all the arguments... | |
 | John Campbell Colquhoun - Animal magnetism - 1836 - 520 pages
...fluence to the soul, as the poet, Spenser, has expressed their doctrine in the following couplet : " For of the soul the body form doth take ; " For soul is form, and doth the body make." in which these cases are to be found minutely recorded, it may be almost sufficient for me to observe... | |
 | James Freeman Clarke, William Henry Channing, James Handasyd Perkins - Unitarianism - 1838 - 370 pages
...of my religious convictions, if they had to be propped up by an artificial manner of expression. " For of the soul the body form doth take, For soul is form, and doth the body make. " It is well for a preacher when preparing his discourses, always to keep in mind what are the ends... | |
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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,... 
