| 1884 - 76 pages
...the text, " Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his '." " Oh ! may we join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In lives made better by their presence. So To live is heaven." HIS LOVE FOR CHILDBEN. On Sunday, 10th... | |
| Mathilde Blind - 1885 - 332 pages
...the grave, one cannot help realizing 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... | |
| Phineas Garrett - Readers - 1885 - 974 pages
...poor body Go about his biziness. Hogg. Of all blessings, ladies are the soothin'est. Artemu* Ward. Oh may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal...generosity, In deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn Of miserable aims that end with self, In thoughts sublime that pierce the nights like stars, And with... | |
| John Clifford - Baptists - 1885 - 506 pages
...Potitivut though he be, and of a very high and spiritual type indeed, yet he is not anticipating joining the " Choir invisible Of those immortal dead, who...generosity, In deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn For muerable aims that end in self, In thoughts sublime that pierce the night like stars, And with their... | |
| George Eliot - 1885 - 422 pages
...Lmffum Ulud tempus, quum nun ero, magis me namtt, qaam koc exiyuum. — CICBBO, nd Att. xii. 18. O MAY I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead...again In minds made better by their presence: live lu pulses stirred to generosity, In deeds of daring rectitnde, in scorn For miserable aims that end... | |
| Religion - 1885 - 612 pages
...She had uttered, in words happily familiar to us now, the unselfish aspiration of the soul : — " O may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead...live again In minds made better by their presence. ... So to live is Heaven." But this heaven, as she herself has taught us, is one that is open only... | |
| Agnosticism - 1885 - 612 pages
...Though she had passed away for ever from the Hannah More stage, and had deliberately substituted " The choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence " for the dream of personal, conscious immortality; though she had passed * George Eliot's Life, as... | |
| John Lord - History - 1885 - 536 pages
...hereafter among the redeemed. To quote her own fine thought, — " Oh, may I join the choir invisible 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... | |
| Phineas Garrett - Readers - 1885 - 988 pages
...let a poor body Go about his biziness. Of all blessings, ladies are the soothin'est. Arlemut Ward. Oh may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made In'tter by their presence; live In pulses stirred to generosity, In deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn... | |
| Thomas Young Crowell - English poetry - 1885 - 702 pages
...joined, and said, " Once more ! " O memories ! O past that is ! ' O MAY I JOIN THE CHOIR INVISIBLE." O MAY I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better hy their presence : In pulses stirred to generosity, In deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn For miserable... | |
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