| Linda Simon - Biography & Autobiography - 1994 - 220 pages
...of George Eliot when I was very young I can not often remember poetry but I can remember that. May I join the choir invisible of those immortal dead who live again. Everybody's Autobiography Gertrude Stein surely has joined the choir of immortals whose work speaks... | |
| R. L. Brett - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 280 pages
...an article of the new faith George Eliot expressed in the opening lines of one of her poems: O may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence Not many English admirers of Comte accepted his proposals for a secular ritual modelled on... | |
| George Eliot - 1909 - 302 pages
...Longum Mud tempus, quum nan ero, magis me movet, quam hoc exiguum. — CICERO, ad Atk. xn, 18. 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... | |
| Rachel R. Baum - Social Science - 1999 - 188 pages
...outgrown shell by life's unresting sea! -Oliver Wendeil Holmes (1809-1894) The Choir Invisible 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... | |
| Geoffrey Parrinder - Quotations, English - 2000 - 389 pages
...we loved, that they might tell us What and where they be. Alfred Tennyson, Maud (1855) iv Oh may 1 join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence. George Eliot, Poems ( 1 867) 20 If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind,... | |
| Claudia Franken - 2000 - 404 pages
...we survive. Nevertheless the concept stays ambiguous. A modification of George Eliot's line "[m]ay I join the choir invisible of those immortal dead who live again," which Stein loved to quote (EA 1 16 passim), expresses the frightfulness of die absolute. Stein's angel... | |
| Michael A Flannery, Lloyd Library And Museum, Dennis B Worthen - Medical - 2001 - 352 pages
...and myself on another, there is something of George Eliot's The Choir Inyisible in this work: Oh, may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence. Alex has joined that "choir invisible" but he will not be forgotten, for surely my mind was... | |
| Paul Woodruff, Harry A. Wilmer - History - 2001 - 324 pages
...Eliot's The Choir Invisible'. I used to be saying to myself, as I walked across that campus: Oh, may I join the choir invisible, Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better for their presence: Live In pulses stirred to generosity, In deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn For... | |
| Genealogy - 1910 - 538 pages
...on Child Labor, passed away August n at Garfield Hospital in Washington. Lost to us, she has joined "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... | |
| Steven Meyer - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 486 pages
...adolescent I read a poem of George Eliot I cannot often remember poetry but I can remember that. May I join the choir invisible of those immortal dead who live again" [p. 119].) Yet, by contrast with the fairly obvious thematic concerns shared by Stein and Eliot in... | |
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