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admyre amor angels Aphrodite aspyre beames behold bellezza beloved body brest bright Britomart celestiall conception darts delight desire desyre Diotima divine beauty doest doth earth earthly Eryximachus eternall explains eyes Faerie Queene faire fairer farre fayning Ficino and Bruno flame fleshly Fowre Hymnes fyre glorie glorious gods goodly grace happie hart hath heast heavenly beauty heavens Hymne in Honour idea immortall indeede influence inspiration Kindled lampe light lover Marsilio Ficino mightie mind mortall mynd noble nought ottava rima passion Pausanias perfect beauty Phaedrus Plato poet powre praise Sapience selfe sense Shepheards Calender shew shyning sight simulacrum Socrates Sonnet soul soveraine Spenser spirit spright Sunne sunt sweet Symposium Temperance thee thereof things thou thought Timaeus unto Venus wight wings wondrous wyde ἂν γὰρ δὲ δὴ ἐν ἐπὶ μὲν οὔτε πρὸς τὰ τε καὶ τὴν τῆς τὸ τοῖς τοῦ τῷ τῶν ὡς
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Page 16 - 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, and doth the body make.
Page xl - The meanes, therefore, which unto us is lent Him to behold, is on his workes to looke, Which he hath made in beauty excellent, And in the same, as in a brasen booke, To reade enregistred in every nooke His goodnesse, which his beautie doth declare ; For all thats good is beautifull and faire.
Page lii - But what if man had eyes to see the true beauty— the divine beauty, I mean, pure and clear and unalloyed, not clogged with the pollutions of mortality and all the colours and vanities of human life— thither looking, and holding converse with the true beauty simple and divine?
Page xv - The terme of life is limited, Ne may a man prolong nor shorten it : The souldier may not move from watchfull sted, Nor leave his stand untill his Captaine bed. Who life did limit by almightie doome...
Page xxxix - And shew himselfe in th' image of His grace, As in a looking-glasse, through which He may Be seene of all His creatures vile and base, That are unable else to see His face, His glorious face! which glistereth else so bright, That th' angels selves can not endure His sight.
Page 41 - And looke at last up to that Soveraine Light, From whose pure beams al perfect Beauty springs, That kindleth love in every godly spright, Even the love of God; which loathing brings Of this vile world and these gay-seeming things; With whose sweet pleasures being so possest, Thy straying thoughts henceforth for ever rest.
Page lxviii - But they, which love indeede. looke otherwise, With pure regard and spotlesse true intent, Drawing out of the object of their eyes A more refyned forme, which they present Unto their mind, voide of all blemishment ; Which it reducing to her first perfection, lieholdeth free from fleshes frayle infection.
Page 64 - How oft do they their silver bowers leave, To come to succour us, that succour want? How oft do they with golden pinions cleave The flitting skies, like flying pursuivant, Against foul fiends to aid us militant?
Page 33 - Aire still flitting, but yet firmely bounded On everie side, with pyles of flaming brands Never consum'd, nor quencht with mortall hands ; 40 And, last, that mightie shining cristall wall, Wherewith he hath encompassed this All. By view whereof it plainly may appeare, That still as every thing doth upward tend, And further is from earth, so still more cleare A.nd faire it growes, till to his perfect end / Of purest beautie it at last ascend ; rv Ayre more then water, fire much more then ayre, And...
Page xxv - Why stand ye still ye virgins in amaze, Upon her so to gaze, Whiles ye forget your former lay to sing, To which the woods did answer, and your eccho ring? But if ye saw that which no eyes can see, The inward beauty of her lively spright...