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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,... "
The Works of Charles Lamb: With a Sketch of His Life and Final Memorials - Page 287
by Charles Lamb - 1875
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Bell's Edition: The Poets of Great Britain Complete from Chaucer to ...

English poetry - 1788 - 510 pages
...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...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...
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The Intellectual repository for the New Church. (July/Sept. 1817 ...

New Church gen. confer - 1849 - 494 pages
...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...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,...
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List of authors. Essay on English poetry. General index

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,...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,...
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Laconics: Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors, Volume 2

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 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...
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Laconics; or, The best words of the best authors [ed. by J. Timbs ..., Volume 2

Laconics - 1829 - 358 pages
...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...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...
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Isis Revelata: An Inquiry Into the Origin, Progress, and Present ..., Volume 1

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...
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The Western Messenger, Volume 5

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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Natural Theology: The Arguments of Paley, Brougham, and the Bridgewater ...

George Ensor - Bridgewater treatises on the power, wisdom, and goodness of God, as manifested in the creation - 1838 - 638 pages
...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...
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The Monthly magazine

Monthly literary register - 1839 - 720 pages
...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...
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Specimens of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical Notices, and ...

Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1841 - 844 pages
...pure And hath in it the more of heavenly light, So it the fairer body doth procure To habit in, nnd x H N MN r^ So, also, Surrey to his fair Geraldine. " The golden gift that Nature did thee give, To fasten friends,...
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