 | Channing Auxiliary (San Francisco) - 1892 - 136 pages
...owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life and rest in unvisited graves. — Middlemarch, O may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead...mild persistence urge man's search To vaster issues. — Poems. si '"THE intellectual and religious life are not 1 complete, they do not rise to their highest... | |
 | 1895 - 682 pages
...begun. He has joined "the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better bv their presence: live In pulses stirred to generosity,...mild persistence urge man's search To vaster issues." FRED AI.WIN KING. JONATHAN SWIFT. In a certain gallery of paintings, there hang side by side two portraits... | |
 | Katharine Paine Sutton - 1892 - 256 pages
...by their presence ; live In pulses stirred to generosity, In deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn Of miserable aims that end with self, In thoughts sublime...night like stars, And with their mild persistence urge men's minds To vaster issues. May I reach That purest heaven, — be to other souls The cup of strength... | |
 | William James Dawson - 1892 - 350 pages
...choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence — live In thoughts sublime that pierce the night like stars,...mild persistence urge man's search To vaster issues." I. Now the first passage describes a phenomenon with which we are familiar in history — the advent... | |
 | Edward Walford, George Latimer Apperson - 1892 - 298 pages
...rectitude, in scorn For miserable aims that end with self, In thoughts sublime that pierce the ni^ht like stars, And with their mild persistence urge man's search To vaster issues. To mahe undying music in the world. Jtihal. To be a herald, and to understand the divers colours of... | |
 | John Henry Barrows - 1893 - 898 pages
...stultify themselves with a false ideal, who, in the beautiful, melancholy prayer of George Eliot, cry: O, may I join the choir invisible, Of those immortal...live is heaven : To make undying music in the world. In plain prose, interpreted in accordance with the author's express avowal,i this means that the supreme... | |
 | John Henry Barrows - 1893 - 838 pages
...themselves with a false ideal, who, in the beautiful, melancholy praver of George Eliot, cry: <j, mav I join the choir invisible, Of those immortal dead...search To vaster issues. So to live is heaven : To make undving music in the world. In plain prose, interpreted in accordance with the author's express avowal,1... | |
 | George Angier Gordon - 1893 - 338 pages
...supplies anobler substitute for the discarded motive drawn from conscious existence after death: — " Oh may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal...man's search To vaster issues. So to live is heaven." This passage is considered the summit of altruism, the classic expression of the sublime morality of... | |
 | John Henry Barrows - 1893 - 838 pages
...dead who live again lixuinds made better by their presence ; live In pulses stirred to generositv,' In deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn For miserable...search To vaster issues. So to live is heaven : To make undving music in the world. In plain prose, interpreted in accordance with the author's express avowal,'... | |
 | 1950 - 412 pages
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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 pierce... 
