 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...  A History of St. Joseph County, Indiana - Page 866by Timothy Edward Howard - 1907 - 1158 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Religion - 1881 - 294 pages
..." 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 aims that... | |
 | 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 aims that... | |
 | 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 aims that... | |
 | 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 aims that... | |
 | David M. Main (ed) - 1881 - 496 pages
...chanted the prayer (The Legend of Juhal 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 aims that... | |
 | 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 come, the... | |
 | John Bate - Theology - 1881 - 574 pages
...4 in a degree far higher, brighter, and purer than Positivism teaches or can lead to : — 'O may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead, who...live again In minds made better by their presence. Living or dying you will be the Lord's. DIFFICULTIES. May I not look upon present difficulties, or... | |
 | Theology - 1881 - 814 pages
...The homily is apt to close with a whispered prayer, just loud enough to be overheard, that he "may join the choir invisible of those immortal dead who live again in souls made better by their presence." By this time the objector is heartily ashamed of himself, and... | |
 | American literature - 1881 - 408 pages
...teachers, who only yesterday got corrected for their mistakes." — Daniel Deronda. 38. " Oh, may I join the choir invisible of those immortal dead who live again in lives made belter by their presence — so to live is heaven.11 49. " Gossip is a sort of smoke that... | |
 | James Platt - 1881 - 226 pages
...dusty 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,... | |
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