| George Eliot - 1884 - 46 pągines
...LOTHROP & COMPANY. »STO«. 0 MAY I JOIN THE CHOIR INVISIBLE ! OMAY I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better...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... | |
| Henry Westcott - 1884 - 282 pągines
...wisdom, and the congregation will show forth their praise." "Oh, may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence ! May I reach That purest heaven, — be to other souls The cup of strength in some great agony. Enkindle... | |
| Diurnal - 1885 - 242 pągines
...others' faults a shade. FABER. 8 /Gallic 9m6itton. £19 areb 3. O MAY I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better...mild persistence urge men's search To vaster issues. GEORGE ELIOT. ri0t's presente. flJ9artll 4. THUS often when we feel alone, Nor help nor comfort near,... | |
| Peter D. Groenewegen - 1998 - 230 pągines
...to that latent ability of the working classes, which was the great waste product of the world, would live "In pulses stirred to generosity; "In deeds of...rectitude, in scorn "For miserable aims that end with self; "Enkindle generous ardour, feed pure love. "Be the sweet presence of a good diffused, "And in diffusion... | |
| Rachel R. Baum - 1999 - 188 pągines
...-Oliver Wendeil Holmes (1809-1894) The Choir Invisible Oh, may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better...mild persistence urge men's search To vaster issues. So to live is heaven: To make undying music in the world, Breathing a beauteous order that controls... | |
| George Eliot - 1909 - 302 pągines
...magis me movet, quam hoc exiguum. — CICERO, ad Atk. xn, 18. OMAY I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better...night like stars, And with their mild persistence urge man's search To vaster issues. So to live is heaven : To make undying music in the world, Breathing... | |
| Geoffrey Parrinder - 2000 - 389 pągines
...What and where they be. Alfred Tennyson, Maud (1855) iv Oh may 1 join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence. George Eliot, Poems ( 1 867) 20 If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only... | |
| 1910 - 538 pągines
...August n at Garfield Hospital in Washington. Lost to us, she has joined "The choir invisible, Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better...like stars, And with their mild persistence, urge man's search, To vaster issues." In these beautiful autumn days it is natural that some leaves should... | |
| Paul Woodruff, Harry A. Wilmer - 2001 - 324 pągines
...Oh, may I join the choir invisible, Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better for their presence: Live In pulses stirred to generosity,...thoughts sublime that pierce the night like stars. I leave you with no answers. I leave you, rather, with my own imperfect statement of what I think is... | |
| Kathryn A. Neeley, Mary Somerville - 2001 - 284 pągines
...253 Author's Preface In one of her best known poems, George Eliot wrote of "the choir invisible," the "immortal dead who live again / In minds made better by their presence." In the work of which this book is the culmination, I have been sustained and inspired by my own Choir... | |
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