 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
 | 1884 - 328 pages
...uttered were broken words and lines from George Elliot's <Choir Invisible,' beginning— 'Oh! may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead, who live again In homes made better by their presence.' * •* •* # * " The last thing she wrote that was published... | |
 | 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 aims that... | |
 | 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 open only... | |
 | Phineas Garrett - Readers - 1885 - 974 pages
...body Go about his biziness. Hogg. Of all blessings, ladies are the soothin'est. Artemu* Ward. 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 Of miserable aims that... | |
 | 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 aims that... | |
 | English poetry - 1885 - 686 pages
...joined, and said, "Once more! " O memories ! O past that is ! " O MA YI JOIN THE CHOIR INVISIBLE: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... | |
 | 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 aims that... | |
 | 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 aims that... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
..."GEORGE ELIOT" (pseudonym of MARY ANN EVANS LEWES CROSS) (1727-1805) The Choir Invisible 1 O may I NGTON MACAULAY, 1ST BARON MACAULAY (1800-1859) The...Armada \ Such night in England ne'er had been, nor (1. 1—3) EBVV; OBD; OBNC; OHFP; WBLP; WGRP THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT (1888-1965) Ash Wednesday 1 Because... | |
 | J. Gerson Da Cunha - History - 1993 - 398 pages
...exponents extant of their thoughts, like the works of great authors, are imbued with the feelings '' Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence." In fortifying Bombay, as the Portuguese Viceroy fortified Diu, in quelling the spirit of insubordination... | |
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