| Illinois. Bureau of Labor Statistics - 1910 - 98 pages
...it is to be to other souls "The cup of strength in some great agony" and then to live for evermore "In deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn For miserable aims that end in self In thoughts sublime that pierce the night like stars And in their mild persistence urge man's... | |
| Benjamin Orange Flower - 1911 - 708 pages
...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 For miserable aims that end in self, In thoughts sublime that pierce the night like stars, And with their mild persistence urge... | |
| Frederic Harrison - 1911 - 384 pages
...understand this, to be inspired by it, to work towards it as towards a " new life," is religion. This is to live — In pulses stirred to generosity, In deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn For miserable ends that end with self. Certainly, the main aim of the Newton Hall addresses has been to illustrate,... | |
| Illinois. Bureau of Labor Statistics - 1911 - 586 pages
...it is to be to other souls "The cup of strength in some great agony" and then to live for evermore "In deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn For miserable aims that end in self In thoughts sublime that pierce the night like stars And in their mild persistence urge man's... | |
| Robert Collyer - 1913 - 364 pages
...loved, or rather some hint of the man who has surely won the great " Well done," and stands now in " 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." THOREAU... | |
| Nebraska. State Board of Agriculture - 1913 - 412 pages
...she caught a vision of such spirits as these when she said, in the "Choir Invisible:" "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... | |
| Leon Kellner - 1915 - 280 pages
...it had read everything and forgotten nothing, is taken from a poem of George Eliot's: O may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live...rectitude, in scorn For miserable aims that end with self. . . . The invisible choir of the title is the band of heroes whose names are not recorded by history,... | |
| James Robinson - 1915 - 168 pages
...and is likely always to abide. This view has been beautifully expressed by George Eliot: O may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live...daring rectitude, In scorn for miserable aims that end in self, In thoughts sublime that pierce the night like stars, And with their mild persistence urge... | |
| 1915 - 368 pages
...shield! — LEO XIII . O, may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In mindx made better by their presence; live In pulses stirred...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... | |
| Richard Wilde Micou - 1916 - 528 pages
...be a higher ethic. This view has never received finer expression than in her words: " 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... | |
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