 | Manchester Literary Club - Literature - 1880 - 772 pages
...poems so, venture to think, they are those by which as a poet she will be longest remembered. 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... | |
 | Unitarian Universalist churches - 1880 - 138 pages
...death with anxious strife ? If light can thus deceive, wherefore not life ? Blanco Wkitt. 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... | |
 | David M. Main - Sonnets, English - 1880 - 490 pages
...chanted the prayer (The Legend of Jubal and Other Poems, by George Eliot, 2nd ed. 1874) : ' 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... | |
 | American literature - 1880 - 208 pages
...that do often lie too deep for tears. — Wordsworth: ''Intimations of Immortality." LXXXV. 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... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1880 - 278 pages
...distinctly with that we have first to deal. The following verses are George Eliot's : — " Oh, 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 : . . . To make undying music in the world, Breathing us beauteous... | |
 | Mary Ann Evans - 1880 - 494 pages
...thrill from the bee's swinging chime, Because the one so near the other is. Brother and Sister. 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... | |
 | Thomas William Rhys Davids - Buddhism - 1881 - 286 pages
...way. " Positivist offset to personal annihilation so winningly "presented by George Eliot: " ' 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... | |
 | Scotland - 1881 - 836 pages
...in the future as in the present. All too soon has her eloquent prayer been granted : — " 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... | |
 | Religion - 1881 - 552 pages
...William Wordftcorth. Every aspiration after goodness is worship. Ecu. John Cunningham, DD 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... | |
 | Noyes Fink Palmer - Genealogy - 1881 - 346 pages
...Christ that is to be." And thus it is and thus only, in the words of George Eliot, that we shall " join the choir invisible of those immortal dead who live again in minds made better by their presence ;" thus it is that we shall have done our share in passing down to the children Palmers to... | |
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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... 
