 | James Copner - 1882 - 208 Seiten
...<reorge Eliot when she penned those grand but simple lines, familiar to many as household words : — 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 men's search To vaster... | |
 | Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, Anna Lydia Ward - 1882 - 926 Seiten
...loving human soul on another. w. GEOBGE Еыот— Janets Repentance. Ch. XIX. stand, 210 INFLUENCE. 0 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... | |
 | Noah Porter - 1882 - 528 Seiten
...upon the reader that the language of inspiring hope is made to do service to depressing despair. " 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... | |
 | George C. Miln - 1882 - 104 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Thomas William Rhys Davids - 1882 - 298 Seiten
...annihilation so winningly "presented by George Eliot: " '0 may I join the choir invisible Of tho^e immortal dead who live again In minds made better...For miserable aims that end with self, In thoughts sublime that pierce the night like stars, And with their mild persistence urge men's search To vaster... | |
 | Charles Anderson Dana - 1882 - 906 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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...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... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1882 - 408 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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... | |
 | 1882 - 830 Seiten
..."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... | |
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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... 
