 | R. L. Brett - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 280 pages
...another; an article of the new faith George Eliot expressed in the opening lines of one of her poems: O may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal...live again In minds made better by their presence Not many English admirers of Comte accepted his proposals for a secular ritual modelled on that of... | |
 | Peter D. Groenewegen - Business & Economics - 1998 - 230 pages
...to that latent ability of the working classes, which was the great waste product of the world, would live "In pulses stirred to generosity; "In deeds of...rectitude, in scorn "For miserable aims that end with self; "Enkindle generous ardour, feed pure love. "Be the sweet presence of a good diffused, "And in diffusion... | |
 | Edward Geoffrey Parrinder, Geoffrey Parrinder - Reference - 2000 - 389 pages
...we loved, that they might tell us What and where they be. Alfred Tennyson, Maud (1855) iv Oh may 1 join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who...live again In minds made better by their presence. George Eliot, Poems ( 1 867) 20 If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only... | |
 | Claudia Franken - 2000 - 404 pages
...into which we survive. Nevertheless the concept stays ambiguous. A modification of George Eliot's line "[m]ay I join the choir invisible of those immortal dead who live again," which Stein loved to quote (EA 1 16 passim), expresses the frightfulness of die absolute. Stein's angel... | |
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MAY I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence... 
