 | 1876 - 982 pages
...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 - Apologetics - 1876 - 256 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
 | Giles Badger Stebbins - Religious poetry - 1877 - 276 pages
...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 pages
...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 - Europe - 1878 - 388 pages
...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 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... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science. Meeting - Science - 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,... | |
 | Thomas Watters - Confucianism - 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... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - 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 end with... | |
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