...fairer body doth procure To habit in, and is 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.' And so I close our Memorial- Introduction to the 'Life' and the ' Writings' as an instalment of what...

...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 ; is applicable to the intimate union that ought to exist between the beautiful and the true in poetry....

...Fate of the Butterfly. Line 209. 1 The dew of thy birth is of the womb of the morning. Psalm ex. 3. I was promised on a time To have reason for my rhyme...Lines on his promised Pension.^ For of the soul the hody form doth take, For soul is form, and doth the hody make. Hymn in Honour of Beauty. Line 132....

...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...

...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...

...creature Than to enjoy delight with libertie, And to be lord of all the workes of Nature, To raine in tli' aire from earth to highest skie, To feed on flowres...season, I received nor rhyme nor reason. Lines on his premised Pension.^ For of the soul the body form doth take, For soul is form, and cloth the body make....

...reason Will come by ready means unto his end ; But things miscounselled must needs miswend. SPENSER. I was promised on a time To have reason for my rhyme...unto this season I received nor rhyme nor reason. SPENSER. We reason with such fluency and fire, The beaux we baffle, and the learned tire. Reason's...

...fairer hody 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 specula( ion, but in a holy place, and should go...