 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1876 - 562 páginas
...reality, Our suffering life the dream. MR8. LEWE8 (GEORGE ELIOT). O MAY I JOIN THE CHOIR INVISIBLE ! 0 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... | |
 | 1876 - 982 páginas
...laughing. In the mean time the Governor was quoting to Iris George Eliot's grand Positivist hymn: " ' О may I join the choir Invisible Of those immortal dead...In pulses stirred to generosity. In deeds of daring rectitnde, In scorn For miserable aims that end with self. This is the life to come. Which martyred... | |
 | Richard Travers Smith - 1876 - 256 páginas
...found of a hope beyond the grave into which the expectation of personal immortality does not enter. " 0 may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead...minds made better by their presence ; live In pulses stirr'd to generosity, In deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn For miserable aims that end with self.... | |
 | 1887 - 532 páginas
...immortality as was the object of George Eliot's aspirations — ' O may I join the choir invisible Of the immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence.' He asks (p. 264) ' How, if a man lives in heaven and in the second life so fat as his spirit has imprinted... | |
 | Marcus Dods - 1877 - 256 páginas
...analogue to the Positivist offset to personal annihilation so winningly presented by George Eliot : — " O may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal...end with self, In thoughts sublime that pierce the nightlike stars, 1 Contemporary Review, January, 1877. And with their mild persistence urge man's search... | |
 | Giles Badger Stebbins - 1877 - 276 páginas
...thee I have appealed, Sweet Spirit, comfort me ! GEORGE HERBERT. mag $ join % <&\mx Jfnbtsibk OH ! may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead...generosity, In deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn Of miserable aims that end in self, In thoughts sublime that pierce the night like stars, And with... | |
 | Robert Shelton Bate - 1878 - 370 páginas
...immortality, his 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...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... | |
 | Edward Livermore Burlingame - 1878 - 388 páginas
...shall 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 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... | |
 | 1878 - 592 páginas
...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... | |
 | 1880 - 592 páginas
...of all his 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...For miserable aims that end with self, In thoughts sub imc, that pierce the night like stars, And with their mild persistence urge man's search To vaster... | |
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O May I Join The Choir Invisible! O may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence... 
