 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
 | 1898 - 502 pages
...lames Lane Allen selected the title for his beautiful story " The Choir Invisible," from this poem. O may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead...made better by their presence: live In pulses stirred in generosity, In deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn For miserable aims that end with self, In thoughts... | |
 | Browning Society (London, England) - 1889 - 218 pages
...remains a memory and an influence." Some, it appears, desire only, in George Eliot's words, to "... join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who...live again In minds made better by their presence." He takes up this answer of modern scepticism and weighs it in the balance. Certainly a memory of her... | |
 | 1889
...ever-widening, ever-weakening circles forever. The greatest woman of our century has expressed it : " 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." Fosteritism demands the creation of this... | |
 | Jabez Thomas Sunderland, Brooke Herford, Frederick B. Mott - 1889 - 608 pages
...friends in mourning for a beautiful life closed in its prime. Both these women belong in George Eliot's "Choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made bet ter by their presence; live In pulses stirred to generosity, in scorn Of miserable aims that end... | |
 | Lewis Thornton - 1890 - 396 pages
...often quoted in religious collections as expressing the Christian idea of a future state :— ' 0, 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... | |
 | Stephen Denison Peet, J. O. Kinnaman - 1891 - 462 pages
...out by the discourses which he delivered. In them he lives, or as George Eliot has paraphrased it, "Oh, may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal...live again In minds made better by their presence." The great distinction between the Brahmin and the Buddhist ascetics is that the former seek by continual... | |
 | Henry Drummond - 1891 - 40 pages
...have loved : according to the number of the cups of cold water we have given in the name of Christ. " Oh, may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In lives made better by their presence." ... | |
 | Grace Townsend - 1891 - 570 pages
...hymn— thrice happy, if it find Acceptance in his car. 212 O, May / Join The Choir Invisible. OMAY I join the choir invisible • Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made batter by their presence; live In pulses stirred to generosity, I?i deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn... | |
 | 1891 - 626 pages
...the years go by, because of its surpassing power and beauty, — these words of George Eliot : — "Oh, may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In mind< made better by their presence : live In pulses stirred to generosity, In deeds of daring rectitude,... | |
 | William Richard Hughes - 1891 - 480 pages
...one of his characters, " the best of men can do no more " — and now he peacefully rests as one " Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence." L'ENVOI. WE — my fellow-tramp and 1 — naturally feel a pang of regret now that our pleasant visit... | |
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