 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 pagina’s
...by their presence; live In pulses stirred to generosity, In deeds of daring rectitude, In scorn Of miserable aims that end with self, In thoughts sublime...night like stars, And with their mild persistence urge men's minds To vaster issues. So to live is heaven : To make undying music in the world, Breathing... | |
 | American Institute of Homeopathy - 1894 - 1362 pagina’s
...noble monument to a noble man. We are sure the following words must have found echo in his nature. " Oh may I join the Choir invisible, Of those immortal...generosity, In deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn Of miserable aims that end with self, In thoughts sublime, that pierce the night like star?, And with... | |
 | 1882 - 966 pagina’s
...In this volume the religious aspirations of the new faith were thus given poetical expression : " O may I join the choir invisible, Of those immortal...like stars, And, with their mild persistence, urge men's search To vaster issues. So to live u Aeoten." In this year, too, at Belfast, Professor Tyndall... | |
 | George Eliot - 1874 - 268 pagina’s
...Longum illud tempm, quum non era, magis me movel, quam hoc ezu/uum. — CICERO, ad Alt., xii. 18. O MAY I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead...And with their mild persistence urge man's search So to live is heaven : To make undying music in the world, Breathing as beauteous order that controls... | |
 | George Eliot - 1874 - 274 pagina’s
...INVISIBLE." illud tempui, t/v.um rum era, magii me movel, I/HUM hoc eziguum. — CICERO, ad Att., xii. 18. 0 MAY I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead...And with their mild persistence urge man's search So to live ia heaven : To make undying music in the world, Breathing as beauteous order that controls... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1876 - 562 pagina’s
...reality, Our suffering life the dream. MR8. LEWE8 (GEORGE ELIOT). O MAY I JOIN THE CHOIR INVISIBLE ! 0 MAY I Join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead...generosity. In deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn Of miserable aims that end with self, In thoughts sublime that pierce the night like stars, And with... | |
 | 1876 - 982 pagina’s
...laughing. In the mean time the Governor was quoting to Iris George Eliot's grand Positivist hymn: " ' О may I join the choir Invisible Of those immortal dead...In pulses stirred to generosity. In deeds of daring rectitnde, In scorn For miserable aims that end with self. This is the life to come. Which martyred... | |
 | Richard Travers Smith - 1876 - 256 pagina’s
...found of a hope beyond the grave into which the expectation of personal immortality does not enter. " 0 may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead...minds made better by their presence ; live In pulses stirr'd to generosity, In deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn For miserable aims that end with self.... | |
 | james nisbet - 1877 - 824 pagina’s
...George Eliot puts the same thought in the final poem of her '' Jubal and other Poems" :— " 0 may 1 join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who...man's search To vaster issues. So to live is heaven." " And all our better, rarer, truer self, That sobbed religiously in yearning song, That watched to... | |
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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 aims that end with self, In thoughts sublime that pierce... 
