 | George C. Miln - 1882 - 104 pages
...race. Unworthy counselors will tell you that this is but a worthless motive; but listen to this voice: O, may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal...generosity, In deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn Of miserable aims that end with self, In thoughts sublime that pierce the night like stars, And with... | |
 | Charles Anderson Dana - 1882 - 906 pages
...him, and lies down to pleasant dreams. WILLIAM CULLKN BRYANT. man 3 join the (fl)oir 3 tangible! OH, may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead...generosity, In deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn Of miserable aims that end with self, In thoughts sublime that pierce the night like stars, And with... | |
 | James Platt - 1882 - 234 pages
...to make a "heaven on earth," and, dying, have a place among those " Immortal dead who still live on In minds made better by their presence ; live In pulses...end with self ; In thoughts sublime that pierce the night-like stars, And with their mild persistence urge man's search To vaster issues." Let all earnest... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1882 - 408 pages
...pamphlet by Charles Sotheran (New York, 1875), entitled " Shelley on the Immortality of the Soul." " O, may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal...live again In minds made better by their presence. . . . May I reach That purest heaven, . . . Be the sweet presence of a good diffused, And in diffusion... | |
 | 1882 - 526 pages
...ethics," fel y geilw Mr. Mallock hwynt, fel y gallo pob darllenydd eu cyfarfod drosto ei hun : — Oh may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead,...live again In minds made better by their presence .... So to live is heaven To make undying music in the world, Breathing us beauteous order that controls... | |
 | 1877 - 542 pages
...Nineteenth Century, September, "Is Life worth Living?"). "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 iheir presence. . . . So to live is heaven. . . . To make undying music in the world, Breathing us... | |
 | 1882 - 830 pages
..."corporate immortality"3 and to which a wide currency has been given by George Eliot's poem. " Oh may 1 join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who...live again In minds made better by their presence." It is the assurance that though personal consciousness ends at death, the achievements of the individual... | |
 | 1882 - 676 pages
...executing the work in Aberdeen granite. On the pedestal is the folbwing inscription in gold letters : — ' Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence.' Here lies the body of •GEORGE ELIOT,' MARY ANN CROSS. Born 22nd November, 1819 Died 22nd December,... | |
 | 1882 - 1434 pages
...INGRATITUDE. 0 may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal (lend who live again In minds nmde better by their presence; live In pulses stirred to generosity, In deeds of during rectitude, in scorn For miserable aims that end with self, In thoughts sublime that pierce the... | |
 | Ernest Woodhead - 1883 - 140 pages
...fellow-men. He is emphatically one of those whom George Eliot has beautifully described as the ' ' Immortal dead who live again In minds made better...end with self, In thoughts sublime that pierce the night-like stars And with their mild persistence urge man's search To vaster issues." ... | |
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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 by their presence... 
