| Sydney Herbert Mellone - 1903 - 188 pages
...Eliot's fine poem, in which she sets forth this view of the immortality of goodness : — ' O may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live...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... | |
| 1903 - 360 pages
...coin, worth about eighteen cents, ex'e unt is a Latin word meaning" (they) go out." Oh, may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live...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... | |
| Monday Club (Boston). - 1903 - 384 pages
...become dim. They — if any ever did — lived "again In minds made better by their presence, . . . In pulses stirred to generosity, In deeds of daring...rectitude, in scorn For miserable aims that end with self." Yet who knew that they still existed in any other sense than that of a blessed influence? Who among... | |
| D.C. Heath and Company - 1903 - 360 pages
...join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence; In pulses stirred to generosity, In deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn Of miserable aims that end with self, live In thoughts sublime that pierce the night like stars, And... | |
| Henry Martyn Simmons - 1904 - 344 pages
...on as a joyous memory and influence in the hearts and lives of friends and acquaintances ; to be " Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made...rectitude, in scorn For miserable aims that end with self"; and so " to join the choir invisible Whose music is the gladness of the world." Nor does this thought... | |
| 1904 - 1058 pages
...The sacred Presence there! ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER. O, MAY I JOIN THE CHOIR INVISIBLE! O, MAY I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live...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... | |
| Mary Elizabeth Burt - 1904 - 396 pages
...George Eliot, 1S1sHSo) is a fitting exposition in poetry of this "Shakespeare of prose." O, MAY I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live...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... | |
| Whitelaw Reid - 1904 - 258 pages
...an ear for the Church's call. To answer that call with all one's heart and life is to take rank with "Those immortal dead who live again In minds made...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... | |
| Hendrik Poutsma - 1916 - 762 pages
...plot. Oh self, self, self! At every turn nothing but self. DICK., Chuz. , Ch. Ill, 226. Oh may I . . live | In pulses stirred to generosity, | In deeds...in scorn | For miserable aims that end with self. G. ELIOT, "O May 1 join the Choir Invisibl e", 6. V. In this connection it may also be pointed out... | |
| Flora Helm Krause - 1910 - 394 pages
...Denver, Colorado. By kindness of the author. FEBRUARY PATRIOTISM-GOOD CITIZENSHIP THEME 0, may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live...generosity, In deeds of daring rectitude; in scorn Of miserable aims that end with self; In thoughts sublime that pierce the night Mke stars, And with... | |
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