 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...  American Oratory of To-day - Page 397edited by - 1910 - 406 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1878 - 298 pages
...God. It is a modern sect in Hindustan, which accepts the best portions of all religions. 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 aims that... | |
 | Edward Livermore Burlingame - 1878 - 388 pages
...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 world, Breathing us beauteous order that... | |
 | Robert Shelton Bate - 1878 - 370 pages
...notion of it is only that of living in the minds of others in subsequent ages : — ' O 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.' His notion of a heaven, you see, is limited to a life of immortality among... | |
 | Thomas Watters - 1879 - 302 pages
...in his theories, yet the good results of his life and doctrines remain imperishable, He has joined " the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence ; lire In pulses stirred to generosity, In deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn For miserable aims that... | |
 | 1888 - 658 pages
...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, in scorn For miserable aims that... | |
 | 1880 - 592 pages
...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, in scorn For miserable aims that... | |
 | 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, Breathing as beauteous order, that controls... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - 1879 - 950 pages
...searcher after truth, to imitate him in that, and avoid what they believe to have been his errors. " Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence : live In pnlses stirred to generosity, In deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn Kor miserable aims that... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1880 - 278 pages
...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 world, Breathing us beauteous order... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1880 - 408 pages
...Charles Sotheran (New York, 1875), entitled « Shelley on tfte (mmortality of the Soul." " d 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 the sweet presence of a good diffused, And in diffusion... | |
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