| Paul Woodruff, Harry A. Wilmer - History - 2001 - 324 pages
...George Eliot's The Choir Invisible'. I used to be saying to myself, as I walked across that campus: Oh, may I join the choir invisible, Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better for their presence: Live In pulses stirred to generosity, In deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn For... | |
| Steven Meyer - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 486 pages
...was adolescent I read a poem of George Eliot I cannot often remember poetry but I can remember that. May I join the choir invisible of those immortal dead who live again" [p. 119].) Yet, by contrast with the fairly obvious thematic concerns shared by Stein and Eliot in... | |
| Kathryn A. Neeley, Mary Somerville - Biography & Autobiography - 2001 - 284 pages
...253 Author's Preface In one of her best known poems, George Eliot wrote of "the choir invisible," the "immortal dead who live again / In minds made better by their presence." In the work of which this book is the culmination, I have been sustained and inspired by my own Choir... | |
| Lucinda Vardey - Religion - 2002 - 468 pages
...everywhere. It is just tliat usually we are nat good enough to truly see the wotld. MOTHER MEERA O may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made berter by their presence: live In pulses stirred to generosity, In deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn... | |
| Life - 210 pages
...unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter—in the eye. - Charlotte Bronte, 19th-century English novelist Oh may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal...live again In minds made better by their presence. — George Eliot, 19th-century English novelist The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome... | |
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