 | William Edward Armytage Axon - 1888 - 344 pages
...the lives of genius have not been without avail. They are not dead, but can still be heard in .... The choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence : In pulses stirred to generosity, live In deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn For miserable aims that... | |
 | 1888 - 392 pages
...idea worthy to take the place of their discarded faith in the soul's eternal life. "Oh, may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence ; *t*«** go JO livc is heaven : To make undying music in the world." In the line of such thoughts... | |
 | 1888 - 588 pages
...passages ; nor is it the immortality of posthumous memory, as in the famous lines: " Oh may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence ! " but it is a state of deep and sentient blessedness, — " a rest " (oxfiraixm, hr. 7 ; Heb. iii.... | |
 | Georgia Bar Association - 1901 - 982 pages
...that company of all noble souls who constitute what George Eliot has called "the choir invisible," " Those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence .... And with their mild persistence urge men's souls To vaster issues, " in that heavenly choir, "whose... | |
 | 1889 - 934 pages
...one true loving human soul on another. w. GEORGE ELIOT— Janet's Kepentance. Ch. XIX. 0 may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live...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... | |
 | 1898 - 502 pages
...Allen selected the title for his beautiful story " The Choir Invisible," from this poem. O may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live...made better by their presence: live In pulses stirred in generosity, In deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn For miserable aims that end with self, In thoughts... | |
 | Browning Society (London, England) - 1889 - 218 pages
...remains a memory and an influence." Some, it appears, desire only, in George Eliot's words, to "... join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence." He takes up this answer of modern scepticism and weighs it in the balance. Certainly a memory of her... | |
 | Jabez Thomas Sunderland, Brooke Herford, Frederick B. Mott - 1889 - 608 pages
...friends in mourning for a beautiful life closed in its prime. Both these women belong in George Eliot's "Choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made bet ter by their presence; live In pulses stirred to generosity, in scorn Of miserable aims that end... | |
 | Lewis Thornton - 1890 - 396 pages
...quoted in religious collections as expressing the Christian idea of a future state :— ' 0, may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who 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... | |
 | Stephen Denison Peet, J. O. Kinnaman - 1891 - 462 pages
...discourses which he delivered. In them he lives, or as George Eliot has paraphrased it, "Oh, may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead, who live again In minds made better by their presence." The great distinction between the Brahmin and the Buddhist ascetics is that the former seek by continual... | |
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O MAY I JOIN THE CHOIR INVISIBLE" (1867) Longum illud tempus, quum nan ero, magis me mo-vet, quam hoc exiguum. — Cicero, ad Att., XII. 18 O may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In" minds made better by their presence... 
