body (n.)

body (v.)

For with G. D., to be absent from the body is sometimes (not to speak profanely) to be present with the Lord.

Charles Lamb (1775-1834): Oxford in the Vacation.

Absent in body, but present in spirit.

New Testament: 1 Corinthians v. 3.

A faultless body and a blameless mind.

Alexander Pope (1688-1744): The Odyssey of Homer. Book iii. Line 138.

Cleanness of body was ever deemed to proceed from a due reverence to God.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Advancement of Learning. Book ii.

He was one of a lean body and visage, as if his eager soul, biting for anger at the clog of his body, desired to fret a passage through it.

Thomas Fuller (1608-1661): Life of the Duke of Alva.

A demd, damp, moist, unpleasant body!

Charles Dickens (1812-1870): Nicholas Nickleby. Chap. xxxiv.

Afflicted, or distressed, in mind, body, or estate.

Book Of Common Prayer: Prayer for all Conditions of Men.

Not body enough to cover his mind decently with; his intellect is improperly exposed.

Sydney Smith (1769-1845): Lady Holland's Memoir. Vol. i. p. 258.

The light of the body is the eye.

New Testament: Matthew vi. 22.

Who with a body filled and vacant mind

Gets him to rest, crammed with distressful bread.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): King Henry V. Act iv. Sc. 1.

For of the soule the bodie forme doth take;

For soule is forme, and doth the bodie make.

Edmund Spenser (1553-1599): An Hymne in Honour of Beautie. Line 132.

For though his body's under hatches,

His soul has gone aloft.

Charles Dibdin (1745-1814): Tom Bowling.

Whose little body lodg'd a mighty mind.

Alexander Pope (1688-1744): The Iliad of Homer. Book v. Line 999.

Afflicted, or distressed, in mind, body, or estate.

Book Of Common Prayer: Prayer for all Conditions of Men.

All are but parts of one stupendous whole,

Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.

Alexander Pope (1688-1744): Essay on Man. Epistle i. Line 267.

Nought cared this body for wind or weather

When youth and I lived in 't together.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834): Youth and Age.

The very age and body of the time his form and pressure.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 2.

He was one of a lean body and visage, as if his eager soul, biting for anger at the clog of his body, desired to fret a passage through it.

Thomas Fuller (1608-1661): Life of the Duke of Alva.

Here in the body pent,

Absent from Him I roam,

Yet nightly pitch my moving tent

A day's march nearer home.

James Montgomery (1771-1854): At Home in Heaven.

Your absence of mind we have borne, till your presence of body came to be called in question by it.

Charles Lamb (1775-1834): Amicus Redivivus.

Drawing near her death, she sent most pious thoughts as harbingers to heaven; and her soul saw a glimpse of happiness through the chinks of her sickness-broken body.

Thomas Fuller (1608-1661): Life of Monica.

I never knew so young a body with so old a head.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1.

The body sprang

At once to the height, and stayed; but the soul,—no!

Robert Browning (1812-1890): A Death in the Desert.

We understood

Her by her sight; her pure and eloquent blood

Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought

That one might almost say her body thought.

Dr John Donne (1573-1631): Funeral Elegies. On the Death of Mistress Drury.

Gave

His body to that pleasant country's earth,

And his pure soul unto his captain Christ,

Under whose colours he had fought so long.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): King Richard II. Act iv. Sc. 1.

With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly goods I thee endow.

Book Of Common Prayer: Solemnization of Matrimony.

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body (n.)

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