 | 1881 - 408 pages
...the best teachers, who only yesterday got corrected for their mistakes." — Daniel Deronda. 38. " Oh, may I join the choir invisible of those immortal dead who live again in lives made belter by their presence — so to live is heaven.11 49. " Gossip is a sort of smoke that... | |
 | James Platt - 1881 - 226 pages
...way to dusty death ! to the enthusiasm for the general good in the following lines of George Eliot : 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 ! But frankly, take life as it is — life,... | |
 | 1881 - 814 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... | |
 | Charles Anderson Dana - 1882 - 906 pages
...About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams. WILLIAM CULLKN BRYANT. man 3 join the (fl)oir 3 tangible! OH, may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal...live again In minds made better by their presence ; live In pulses stirred to generosity, In deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn Of miserable aims that... | |
 | James Copner - 1882 - 208 pages
...<reorge Eliot when she penned those grand but simple lines, familiar to many as household words : — Oh, may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal...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... | |
 | Noah Porter - 1882 - 530 pages
...upon the reader that the language of inspiring hope is made to do service to depressing despair. " Oh may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal...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... | |
 | 1882 - 526 pages
...ethics," fel y geilw Mr. Mallock hwynt, fel y gallo pob darllenydd eu cyfarfod drosto ei hun : — 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 that controls... | |
 | Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, Anna Lydia Ward - 1882 - 926 pages
...loving human soul on another. w. GEOBGE Еыот— Janets Repentance. Ch. XIX. stand, 210 INFLUENCE. 0 may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead...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... | |
 | George C. Miln - 1882 - 104 pages
...Unworthy counselors will tell you that this is but a worthless motive; but listen to this voice: O, may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead...live again In minds made better by their presence; live In pulses stirred to generosity, In deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn Of miserable aims that... | |
 | 1877 - 542 pages
...Nineteenth Century, September, "Is Life worth Living?"). "The following verses are George Eliot's : Oh, may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead, who live again In minds made better by iheir presence. . . . So to live is heaven. . . . To make undying music in the world, Breathing us... | |
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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... 
