| Frederic William Farrar - English poetry - 1883 - 326 pages
...-wrought happiness Thou wilt the world around thee bless. GEORGE ELIOT. Born 1820. Died 1881. OH, may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence : live In pulses stirred to generosity, In deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn For miserable... | |
| Andrew Carnegie - Great Britain - 1883 - 366 pages
...George Eliot's greatest thing in poetry, for her poems are much less known than they should be. " O may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence : live In pulses stirred to generosity. In deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn For miserable... | |
| George Willis Cooke - Novelists, English - 1883 - 454 pages
...sympathy with each other. The same thought is more fully presented when she exultingly sings, — O may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence : live In pulses stirred to generosity, In deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn For miserable... | |
| Otis Henry Tiffany - Anthologies - 1883 - 954 pages
...mostly In the greater weakness or greater strength Of the acts which follow it. (Longfellow. 0 may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence ; live In pulses stirred to generosity, In deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn For miserable... | |
| George Eliot - 1883 - 376 pages
...Longum illudtempu;, quum non era, magis me mn'et, quam hoc exijfuum-- CICERO, ad Alt., -xii. 18. O MAY I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence : live In pulses stirred to generosity, ^ ,. . , .,' .. j 4 ,- ^ In deeds of daring rectitude/TSTcorn... | |
| Mathilde Blind - Novelists, English - 1883 - 238 pages
...the grave, one cannot help realising how truly eventful was the life of her who now joined in spirit the " Choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence : live In pulses stirred to generosity, In deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn For miserable... | |
| James Platt - Conduct of life - 1883 - 538 pages
...death ! " to the enthusiasm for the general good, in the following lines of George Eliot: " Oh, may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In lives made better by their presence ! So To live is Heaven !" But frankly, take life as it is—life,... | |
| Eliza Archard Conner - Europe - 1883 - 422 pages
...pen, which are now known wherever the English language is known. The whole inscription is like this : "Of those immortal dead who live again, In minds made better by their presence." Here lies the body of "George Eliot," Mary Ann Cross. Born 22d November, 1819, Died 22d... | |
| Victor Hugo - 1883 - 48 pages
...fullness The Active rewarding: We bid you; work and hope." TBW THE CHOIR INVISIBLE. BY GEORGE ELIOT. O may I join the choir invisible, Of those immortal dead who live again ln minds made better by their presence: live lu pulses stirred to generosity, In deeds of daring rectitude,... | |
| English sacred lyrics - Christian poetry - 1884 - 296 pages
...GEORGB ELIOT, CXXXI. 1820—1881. LONGUM ILLUD TEMPUS QUUM NON ERO MAGIS ME MOVET QUAM HOC EXIGUUM. OMAY I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence : live In pulses stirred to generosity, In deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn For miserable... | |
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