 | David M. Main (ed) - 1881 - 496 pages
...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 dead...thoughts sublime that pierce the night like stars, And w1th their mild persistence urge man's search To vaster issues.' But from such passages as these we... | |
 | Philip Schaff, Arthur Gilman - 1880 - 1108 pages
...among the im^t widely read of the century. She married, in iSSo, John Waiter Cross, of London. OH, h here enamels everything ; And sends the fowls te us, in care, On Of miserable aims that end with self, In thoughts sublime that pierce the night like stars, And with... | |
 | John Bate - 1881 - 574 pages
...Positivist, 4 in a degree far higher, brighter, and purer than Positivism teaches or can lead to : — 'O may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead,...live again In minds made better by their presence. Living or dying you will be the Lord's. DIFFICULTIES. May I not look upon present difficulties, or... | |
 | Leonard A. Montefiore - 1881 - 432 pages
...must bear men on through darker days, bears them up through scorn and obloquy, rouses them still to ' Thoughts sublime that pierce the night like stars,...persistence urge man's search, To vaster issues.' Grave memories are these, and graver still are those of the sorrows of that inner life which friend... | |
 | Noyes Fink Palmer - 1881 - 346 pages
...Christ that is to be." And thus it is and thus only, in the words of George Eliot, that we shall " join the choir invisible of those immortal dead who...live again in minds made better by their presence ;" thus it is that we shall have done our share in passing down to the children Palmers to come, the... | |
 | James Platt - 1881 - 226 pages
...to dusty death ! to the enthusiasm for the general good in the following lines of George Eliot : Oh, may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again, In lives made better by their presence. So To live is Heaven ! But frankly, take life as it is — life,... | |
 | Leonard A. Montefiore - 1881 - 418 pages
...must bear men on through darker days, bears them up through scorn and obloquy, rouses them still to ' Thoughts sublime that pierce the night like stars, And with their mild persistence urge mail's search, To vaster issues.' Grave memories are these, and graver still are those of the sorrows... | |
 | 1881 - 408 pages
...best teachers, who only yesterday got corrected for their mistakes." — Daniel Deronda. 38. " Oh, may I join the choir invisible of those immortal dead who live again in lives made belter by their presence — so to live is heaven.11 49. " Gossip is a sort of smoke that... | |
 | 1881 - 814 pages
...The homily is apt to close with a whispered prayer, just loud enough to be overheard, that he "may join the choir invisible of those immortal dead who live again in souls made better by their presence." By this time the objector is heartily ashamed of himself, and... | |
 | 1881 - 322 pages
...wanting in those who come after us, but rather let us hope that such, our successors, will ever — Live In pulses stirred to generosity, In deeds of daring rectitude, In thoughts sublime that pierce the night-like stars, And with their mild persistence urge man's search... | |
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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... 
