 Oh may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence...  Transactions - Page 161by Nebraska. State Board of Agriculture - 1913Full view - About this book
 | 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 dead,...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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Thomas Watters - 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 - 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... | |
 | William Hurrell Mallock - 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,... | |
 | Borden Parker Bowne - 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,... | |
 | John White Chadwick - 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 - 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 - 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... | |
 | 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... | |
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