| Quotations, English - 1882 - 1434 pages
...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... | |
| Ernest Woodhead - 1883 - 140 pages
...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." ... | |
| Mathilde Blind - Novelists, English - 1883 - 238 pages
...the grave, one cannot help realising how truly eventful was the life of her who now joined in spirit 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... | |
| Andrew Martin Fairbairn - Theology - 1883 - 396 pages
...glorified by one who is by right of rare culture and imagination a pre-eminent teacher of the age. " O may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead...In pulses stirred to generosity, In deeds of daring recdtude, in scorn For miserable aims that end with self, In thoughts sublime that pierce the night... | |
| George Willis Cooke - Biography & Autobiography - 1883 - 470 pages
...own days on earth should have closed, to have a place among those ' Immortal dead who still live on In minds made better by their presence ; live In pulses...rectitude ; in scorn For miserable aims that end with sell; In thoughts sublime that pierce the night like stars, And with their mild persistence urge man's... | |
| George Eliot - 1883 - 376 pages
...Longum illudtempu;, quum non era, magis me mn'et, quam hoc exijfuum-- CICERO, ad Alt., -xii. 18. O MAY I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead...their presence : live In pulses stirred to generosity, ^ ,. . , .,' .. j 4 ,- ^ In deeds of daring rectitude/TSTcorn For miserable aims that end. with self,... | |
| Authors - 1883 - 416 pages
...they use the word " invisible " to mean, not simply " out of mortal sight," but " out of all sight:" O may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead...again In minds made better by their presence, live In deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn For miserable aims that end with self, In thoughts sublime that... | |
| Alice Lang - English fiction - 1883 - 218 pages
...questions, for she saw her mother standing in the dining-room near to the open window. CHAPTER VI. live In pulses stirred to generosity, In deeds of...rectitude, in scorn For miserable aims that end with self." — George Eliot. REAKFAST was scarcely over before Mr. Lawson (a farmer in Boscombe, and an old and... | |
| Arthur Lillie - 1883 - 434 pages
...not the " rule of the entire circle of the earth " with the holder of the relic, the Rani of Ran1s ? In minds made better by their presence ; live In pulses...stirred to generosity, In deeds of daring, rectitude, or scorn For miserable aims that end in self." 1 Page 65. 27S THE POPULAR LIFE OF BUDDHA. CHAPTER XXII.... | |
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