...beauty and mental excellence, so charmingly expressed by Spenser — So every spirit as it is most pure, And hath in it the more of heavenly light, So...doth take, For soul is form, and doth the body make ; is applicable to the intimate union that ought to exist between the beautiful and the true in poetry....

...grace, It was no thing bequethed us with our place. BEAUTY. CHAUCER. So every spirit, as it is most pure, And hath in it the more of heavenly light, So...doth take; For soul is form, and doth the body make. Therefore wherever that thou dost behold A comely corpse, with beauty fair endued, Know this for certain,...

...connection between each man's form and face, and the character of the soul ; as when Spenser says, "For of the soul the body form doth take, For soul is FORM, and doth the body make." Which of these views is correct, I shall not now inquire. It was necessary to mention them, that we...

...remained the same all the time. Does not this show that Spenser the poet was right when he said, — " For of the soul the body form doth take ; For soul is form, and doth the body make " ? The unity and identity of every organized body must have their root in something beside the material...

...life ; and if the outward expression be sexual, it is evident the inner life must be sexual also : " For of the Soul the Body form doth take : For Soul is form, and doth the Body make." Sex is a principle that pervades universal nature, and human minds and souls form no exception. There...

...invests the lower animals-with soul as well as body." But herein they miss an important consideration — For of the soul the body form doth take ; For soul is form and doth the body make. Our domestic pets do, undoubtedly, under his exquisite treatment, become thinking creatures. They are...

...and we shall find our highest account in trying. 'LESSON VI. MISTAKES OF PENANCE. "For of the sonl the body form doth take, For soul is form and doth the body make." SPENSH. u Can sackcloth clothe a fault or hide a shame ? Or do thy hands make Heaven a recompense,...

...every spirit, as it is more pure. And hath in it the more of heavenly light, So it the fairer hody doth procure To habit in, and it more fairly dight,...doth take, For soul is form, and doth the body make." Here we find ourselves, suddenly, not in a critical specula( ion, but in a holy place, and should go...

...the more of heavenly light, So it the fairer body doth procure To habit in, and it more fairly diglit With cheerful grace and amiable sight ; For of the...doth take ; For soul is form, and doth the body make. Therefore wherever that thou dost behold A comely corpse, with beauty fair endued, Know this for certain,...

...like beauty, and is before that on which it is impressed. As the poet Spencer has truly said : '"Tis of the soul the body form doth take, For soul is form, and doth the body make." ped furnished with a tail and pointed ears," can believe with equal reason that the Belvedere Apollo...