 O 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...  A Treasury of English Sonnets - 289. oldalSzerkesztette: - 1880 - 470 oldalTeljes nézet - Információ erről a könyvről
 | James Platt - 1882 - 234 oldal
...to make a "heaven on earth," and, dying, have a place among those " Immortal dead who still live on In minds made better by their presence ; live In pulses...end with self ; In thoughts sublime that pierce the night-like stars, And with their mild persistence urge man's search To vaster issues." Let all earnest... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1882 - 408 oldal
...pamphlet by Charles Sotheran (New York, 1875), entitled " Shelley on the Immortality of the Soul." " O, may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal...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... | |
 | 1882 - 526 oldal
...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 dead,...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... | |
 | 1877 - 542 oldal
...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... | |
 | 1882 - 830 oldal
..."corporate immortality"3 and to which a wide currency has been given by George Eliot's poem. " Oh may 1 join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who...live again In minds made better by their presence." It is the assurance that though personal consciousness ends at death, the achievements of the individual... | |
 | 1882 - 676 oldal
...executing the work in Aberdeen granite. On the pedestal is the folbwing inscription in gold letters : — ' Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence.' Here lies the body of •GEORGE ELIOT,' MARY ANN CROSS. Born 22nd November, 1819 Died 22nd December,... | |
 | 1882 - 1434 oldal
...INGRATITUDE. 0 may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal (lend who live again In minds nmde better by their presence; live In pulses stirred to generosity, In deeds of during rectitude, in scorn For miserable aims that end with self, In thoughts sublime that pierce the... | |
 | Andrew Carnegie - 1883 - 366 oldal
...is George Eliot's greatest thing in poetry, for her poems are much less known than they should be. " O may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal...night like stars, And with their mild persistence urge men's search To vaster issues. ********* " May I reach That purest heaven, be to other souls The cup... | |
 | 1883 - 270 oldal
...hogs wantonly and cruelly, can awaken no hope of an honorable after life. E. HATHAWAY. ASPIRATION. Oh may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead...night like stars, And with their mild persistence urge men's search To vaster issues. GEOKOE ELIOT. THE POOR BEETLE. The sense of death is most in apprehension... | |
 | Ernest Woodhead - 1883 - 140 oldal
...fellow-men. He is emphatically one of those whom George Eliot has beautifully described as the ' ' Immortal dead who live again In minds made better...end with self, In thoughts sublime that pierce the night-like stars And with their mild persistence urge man's search To vaster issues." ... | |
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