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
| Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pages
...unknown. "GEORGE ELIOT" (pseudonym of MARY ANN EVANS LEWES CROSS) (1727-1805) The Choir Invisible 1 O S BABINGTON MACAULAY, 1ST BARON MACAULAY (1800-1859)...Armada \ Such night in England ne'er had been, nor (1. 1—3) EBVV; OBD; OBNC; OHFP; WBLP; WGRP THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT (1888-1965) Ash Wednesday 1 Because... | |
| J. Gerson Da Cunha - 1993 - 398 pages
...exponents extant of their thoughts, like the works of great authors, are imbued with the feelings '' Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence." In fortifying Bombay, as the Portuguese Viceroy fortified Diu, in quelling the spirit of insubordination... | |
| Linda Simon - 1994 - 220 pages
...poem of George Eliot when I was very young I can not often remember poetry but I can remember that. May I join the choir invisible of those immortal dead who live again. Everybody's Autobiography Gertrude Stein surely has joined the choir of immortals whose work speaks... | |
| R. L. Brett - 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 dead...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... | |
| Edward Geoffrey Parrinder, Geoffrey Parrinder - 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... | |
| Michael A Flannery, Lloyd Library And Museum, Dennis B Worthen - 2001 - 352 pages
...level and myself on another, there is something of George Eliot's The Choir Inyisible in this work: Oh, may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal...live again In minds made better by their presence. Alex has joined that "choir invisible" but he will not be forgotten, for surely my mind was made better... | |
| Paul Woodruff, Harry A. Wilmer - 2001 - 324 pages
...George Eliot's The Choir Invisible'. I used to be saying to myself, as I walked across that campus: Oh, may I join the choir invisible, Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better for their presence: Live In pulses stirred to generosity, In deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn For... | |
| Steven Meyer - 2001 - 486 pages
...was adolescent I read a poem of George Eliot I cannot often remember poetry but I can remember that. May I join the choir invisible of those immortal dead who live again" [p. 119].) Yet, by contrast with the fairly obvious thematic concerns shared by Stein and Eliot in... | |
| Kathryn A. Neeley, Mary Somerville - 2001 - 284 pages
...253 Author's Preface In one of her best known poems, George Eliot wrote of "the choir invisible," the "immortal dead who live again / In minds made better by their presence." In the work of which this book is the culmination, I have been sustained and inspired by my own Choir... | |
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