 | George Eliot - 1885 - 422 pages
...Lmffum Ulud tempus, quum nun ero, magis me namtt, qaam koc exiyuum. — CICBBO, nd Att. xii. 18. O MAY I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence: live lu pulses stirred to generosity, In deeds of daring rectitnde, in scorn For miserable... | |
 | James Parton - Women - 1885 - 614 pages
...that which she longed to be when she wrote the aspiration that closes her volume of poems : "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 - 1885 - 612 pages
...uttered, in words happily familiar to us now, the unselfish aspiration of the soul : — " 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." But this heaven, as she herself has taught us, is one that is... | |
 | John Clifford - Baptists - 1885 - 506 pages
...Potitivut though he be, and of a very high and spiritual type indeed, yet he is not anticipating joining 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 muerable... | |
 | Mathilde Blind - 1885 - 332 pages
...the grave, one cannot help realizing 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... | |
 | Agnosticism - 1885 - 612 pages
...Though she had passed away for ever from the Hannah More stage, and had deliberately substituted " The choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence " for the dream of personal, conscious immortality; though she had passed * George Eliot's... | |
 | Thomas Young Crowell - English poetry - 1885 - 702 pages
...and said, " Once more ! " O memories ! O past that is ! ' O MAY I JOIN THE CHOIR INVISIBLE." O MAY I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better hy their presence : In pulses stirred to generosity, In deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn For miserable... | |
 | Huguenot Society of London - Huguenots - 1893 - 706 pages
...which they won, thank God and take courage ; and, as individuals, let us not forget to pray, Oh! may I join the choir invisible, Of those immortal dead who live again In pulses stirred to generosity, In deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn For miserable aims that end with... | |
 | Gerald Parsons - History - 1988 - 242 pages
...stood alone and triumphant, unsupported by belief in God or the hope of personal immortality: 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... | |
 | Lance St. John Butler - Literary Criticism - 1990 - 244 pages
...opens by expressing a desire for the 'subjective immortality' of which Comte had made so much: 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... | |
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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... 
