 | William Hurrell Mallock - Ethics - 1879 - 332 pages
...themselves learn from it, is something very different. The following verses are George Eliot's : " 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. . . . To make undying music in the world,... | |
 | John White Chadwick - Sermons, American - 1879 - 368 pages
...faithful unto death. Here is a motive to right-doing which has in it no taint of selfishness. " Oh may we join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In lives made better by their presence !" Welcome the controversy which will force a thousand men to ask,... | |
 | Borden Parker Bowne - Theism - 1879 - 464 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,... | |
 | Borden Parker Bowne - Theism - 1879 - 464 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,... | |
 | Robert Flint - Theism - 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...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... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1880 - 278 pages
...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... | |
 | Epes Sargent - Spiritualism - 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... | |
 | American literature - 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... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1880 - 1124 pages
...wreck» of matter, and the crush of worlds ! JOSEPH ADDISON. 0, MAY I JOIN THE CHOIR INVISIBLE ! 0, ̠ 82 111 minds made better by their presence ; live In pulses stirred to generosity, In deeds of daring... | |
 | Philip Schaff, Arthur Gilman - Dummies (Bookselling) - 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... | |
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