 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 - Pagina 25di Treasury - 1869 - 458 pagineVisualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - 1876 - 870 pagine
...fairer body doth procure To habit in, and it more fairly dight With cheerful grace and amiable sight ; d with swinish phrase Soil our addition ; and, indeed, it takes From our achievemen Spenser afterwards wrote two religious hymns, to counteract the effect of those on love and beauty,... | |
 | 1877 - 362 pagine
...Luther. — I have no other but a woman's REASON : I think him so because I think him so. Reason — I was promised on a time To have REASON for my rhyme...unto this season, I received nor rhyme nor reason. SPENSER, Lines on his Promised Peusion. Reason, Goddess of— A personification of those intellectual... | |
 | Robert Aitkin Bertram - 1877 - 766 pagine
...and wilds, Rough clad, devoid of every liner art And elegance of life. — Thomson. 2712. PHRENOLOGY. chard D. Dickinson Spenser. Away with all doubt and misgiving ; Now lovers must woo by the book — There's an end to... | |
 | Alicia Amy Leith - 1877 - 292 pagine
...glistering shoe-tie ; A face that's blest, By its own beauty drest, And can alone command the rest. FOR of the soul the body form doth take, For soul is form, and doth the body make. June 9th, THOU hast not failed To bring the golden promise of thy youth Up to its full perfection.... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 268 pagine
...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. Beside this we might put the following passage from Hoby's translation of Castiglione: I sav thst beauty... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1983 - 1196 pagine
...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... | |
 | R. Dimsdale Stocker - 1985 - 48 pagine
...relationship with "the Law," and by so doing you shall acquire both a balanced mind and a symmetrical brain; for: " Of the Soul the body form doth take, For Soul is form and doth the body make." 2S The Secret Of Personal Success. It is a significant fact that some people get on in the world where... | |
 | Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins - 1988 - 468 pagine
...dropping slowly from us; let us hasten the transformation of the body by the nobility of the soul." For of the soul the body form doth take, For soul is form and doth the body make, quoted Dora. "Yes," said Mrs. Willis with a smile, "that is the idea exactly, and well expressed. Now... | |
 | Arthur M. Coon - 1996 - 56 pagine
...gladness For ages as an angel. Birth Has caused my present sadness. " From Spenser comes this couplet: "For of the soul the body form doth take, For soul is form and doth the body make. " The Greek poet Ovid, in his "Metamorphosis" (as translated by Dryden) wrote: "Souls cannot die. They... | |
 | Paul Martin, Martin - 1999 - 378 pagine
...deep and its tendrils extend throughout the heritage of Western thought. That old mind-body problem For of the soul the body form doth take; For soul is form, and doth the body make. Edmund Spenser, An Hymn in Honour of Beauty (1596) It is certain that this 'me' (that is to say, my... | |
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