 | Manchester Literary Club - 1880 - 772 Seiten
...Eliot's poems so, venture to think, they are those by which as a poet she will be longest remembered. O may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal...For miserable aims that end with self, In thoughts sublime that pierce the night like stars, And with their mild persistence urge man's search To vaster... | |
 | David M. Main - 1880 - 506 Seiten
...openly chanted the prayer (The Legend of Jubal and Other Poems, by George Eliot, 2nd ed. 1874) : ' O may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal...For miserable aims that end with self, In thoughts sublime that pierce the night like stars, And with their mild persistence urge man's search To vaster... | |
 | 1880 - 146 Seiten
...shun death with anxious strife ? If light can thus deceive, wherefore not life ? " BUuua White. OH may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead...For miserable aims that end with self, In thoughts sublime that pierce the night like stars, And with their mild persistence urge man's search To vaster... | |
 | Robert Flint - 1880 - 494 Seiten
...contemporary novelists and among the greatest of contemporary poets has expressed in the words : — " O may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal...stirred to generosity, In deeds of daring rectitude, in scom For miserable aims that end with self, In thoughts sublime that pierce the night like stars, And... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1880 - 278 Seiten
...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,...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... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1880 - 408 Seiten
...pamphlet by Charles Sotheran (New York, 1875), entitled « Shelley on tfte (mmortality of the Soul." " d may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead...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... | |
 | 1880 - 208 Seiten
...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, in scorn For miserable... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1880 - 1124 Seiten
...wreck» of matter, and the crush of worlds ! JOSEPH ADDISON. 0, MAY I JOIN THE CHOIR INVISIBLE ! 0, ̠ 82 111 minds made better by their presence ; live In pulses stirred to generosity, In deeds of daring... | |
 | 1881 - 836 Seiten
...influence 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...For miserable aims that end with self, In thoughts sublime that pierce the night like stars, And with their mild persistence urge man's search To vaster... | |
 | David M. Main (ed) - 1881 - 496 Seiten
...had only 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...For miserable aims that end with self, In thoughts sublime that pierce the night like stars, And w1th their mild persistence urge man's search To vaster... | |
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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... 
