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,... Works, with a Sketch of His Life and Final Memorials - Página 217por Charles Lamb - 1855Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Charles Lamb - 1836 - 324 páginas
...is more pure. And hath in it the more of heavenly light, So it the fairer body doth procure To hahit in, and it more fairly dight With cheerful grace and...These poets, we find, are no safe guides in philosophy ; for here, in his very next stanza but one, is a saving clause, which throws us all out again, and... | |
| John Campbell Colquhoun - 1836 - 520 páginas
...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... | |
| Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1838 - 486 páginas
...beauty, divine Spenser, platonizing, sings : — " Every spirit as it is more pure, And hath in it the more of heavenly light, So it the fairer body...These poets, we find, are no safe guides in philosophy ; for here, in his very next stanza but one, is a saving clause, which throws us all out again, and... | |
| James Freeman Clarke, William Henry Channing, James Handasyd Perkins - 1838 - 370 páginas
...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... | |
| George Ensor - 1838 - 638 páginas
...different from and independent of matter alto* The following couplet would have suited this voluntary : " For of the soul the body form doth take. For soul is form and doth the body make." gether." Why? Who ever had cognisance of minds without bodies ? He says, " If the mind perishes or... | |
| Monthly literary register - 1839 - 720 páginas
...Leviathan, by whose side the Norway pilot moors under the Ice — the sun in eclipse, shedding • " For of the soul the body form doth take ; For soul is form, and doth the body make." — disastrous twilight over half the nations — the moon whose orb through optic glass the Tuscan... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1840 - 304 páginas
..." 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...These poets, we find, are no safe guides in philosophy ; for here, in his very next stanza but one, is a saving clause, which throws us all out again, and... | |
| Thomas Campbell - 1841 - 844 páginas
...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, nnd it more fairly dight With cheerful grace and amiable sight ; For of the soul the body form doth... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1844 - 332 páginas
...makes the body, as the wise Spenser teaches : — " So every spirit, as it is most pure, And hath in it the more of heavenly light, So it the fairer body...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... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1844 - 332 páginas
...makes the body, as the wise Spenser teaches : — " So every spirit, as it is most pure, And hath in it the more of heavenly light, So it the fairer body...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... | |
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