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... Proceedings of the Huguenot Society of London - Page 62by Huguenot Society of London - 1893Full view - About this book
| William Hurrell Mallock - 1879 - 332 pages
...themselves learn from it, is something very different. The following verses are George Eliot's : " 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. . . . To make undying music in the world,... | |
| 1880 - 592 pages
...a man of all his labor which he taketh under the sun ? " let us rather sing with George Eliot : — "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,... | |
| 1888 - 658 pages
...point of view in our literature is that wonderfully sweet and beautiful " 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,... | |
| John White Chadwick - 1879 - 368 pages
...infinite influence which proceeds from us may be an influence for good and not for evil. " Oh, may we 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,... | |
| Borden Parker Bowne - 1879 - 464 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,... | |
| Borden Parker Bowne - 1879 - 464 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,... | |
| George Chainey - 1880 - 160 pages
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| Rossiter Johnson - 1880 - 278 pages
...then see 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... | |
| 1880 - 208 pages
...Thoughts 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,... | |
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