 | John Greenleaf Whittier - American poetry - 1876 - 562 pages
...reality, Our suffering life the dream. MR8. LEWE8 (GEORGE ELIOT). O MAY I JOIN THE CHOIR INVISIBLE ! 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 Of miserable... | |
 | Richard Travers Smith - Apologetics - 1876 - 256 pages
...a hope beyond the grave into which the expectation of personal immortality does not enter. " 0 may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence ; live In pulses stirr'd to generosity, In deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn For miserable... | |
 | 1876 - 982 pages
...In the mean time the Governor was quoting to Iris George Eliot's grand Positivist hymn: " ' О 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 rectitnde, In scorn For miserable... | |
 | Marcus Dods - Buddha (The concept) - 1877 - 264 pages
...the Positivist offset to personal annihilation so winningly presented by George Eliot : — " 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... | |
 | Monday Club (Boston). - Sermons, American - 1877 - 456 pages
...found, not in any man, but in knowing the only true God and Jesus Christ whom He has sent. " 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... | |
 | Robert Flint - 1877 - 450 pages
...contemporary novelists and among the greatest of contemporary poets has expressed in the words : — " 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... | |
 | Robert Flint - Theism - 1877 - 466 pages
...contemporary novelists and among the greatest of contemporary poets has expressed in triewords : — " 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... | |
 | james nisbet - 1877 - 824 pages
...George Eliot puts the same thought in the final poem of her '' Jubal and other Poems" :— " 0 may 1 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... | |
 | Maxims - 1878 - 300 pages
...of God. It is a modern sect in Hindustan, which accepts the best portions of all religions. 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... | |
 | Robert Shelton Bate - 1878 - 370 pages
...immortality, his notion of it is only that of living in the minds of others in subsequent ages : — ' O may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead, who live again In minds made better by their presence : So to live is heaven.' His notion of a heaven, you see, is limited to a life of immortality... | |
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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 aims that end with self. In thoughts sublime that... 
