 | British Association for the Advancement of Science. Meeting - 1879 - 978 pages
...great simplicity. His pupils in every part of the civilized world will indeed account him as one " Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made...daring rectitude, in scorn For miserable aims that end witli self, In thoughts sublime that pierce the night like stars, And, with their mild persistence,... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - 1879 - 950 pages
...by their presence : live In pnlses stirred to generosity, In deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn Kor miserable aims that end with self, In thoughts sublime...persistence, urge man's search To vaster issues." The following Papers were read :— 1. Observations on some P oints in the Osteology nf an Infantile... | |
 | Mary Ann Evans - 1880 - 494 pages
...lightest thrill from the bee's swinging chime, Because the one so near the other is. Brother and Sister. O may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead...man's search To vaster issues. So to live is heaven. O May I Join. Two lovers by a moss-grown spring : They leaned soft cheeks together there, Mingled the... | |
 | David M. Main - 1880 - 506 pages
...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 dead...mild persistence urge man's search To vaster issues.' But from such passages as these we see that with that assurance was joined an ardent recognition of... | |
 | Manchester Literary Club - 1880 - 772 pages
...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 dead...mild persistence urge man's search To vaster issues This is life to come, Which martyred men have made more glorious For us who strive to follow. May I... | |
 | Robert Flint - 1880 - 494 pages
...contemporary novelists and among the greatest of contemporary poets has expressed in the words : — " O may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead...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... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1880 - 1124 pages
...by their presence ; live In pulses stirred to generosity, In deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn Of choe S92 men's minds To vaster issues. So to live is heaven : To make undying inusie in the world, Breathing... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1880 - 278 pages
...then 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...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
...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 pages
...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... | |
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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 end with self. In thoughts sublime that... 
