...contemporary novelists and among the greatest of contemporary poets has expressed in the words : — " O may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal...stirred to generosity, In deeds of daring rectitude, in scom For miserable aims that end with self, In thoughts sublime that pierce the night like stars, And...

...pamphlet by Charles Sotheran (New York, 1875), entitled « Shelley on tfte (mmortality of the Soul." " d may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead...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...

...see distinctly with that we have first to deal. The following verses are George Eliot's : — " Oh, may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead,...live again In minds made better by their presence .... So to live is heaven : . . . To make undying music in the world, Breathing us beauteous order...

...Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears. — Wordsworth: ''Intimations of Immortality." LXXXV. OH may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence:—live In pulses stirred to generosity, In deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn For miserable...

...wreck» of matter, and the crush of worlds ! JOSEPH ADDISON. 0, MAY I JOIN THE CHOIR INVISIBLE ! 0, ̠ 82 111 minds made better by their presence ; live In pulses stirred to generosity, In deeds of daring...

...evidenced in the Sonnets as if, with a later immortal, he had only chanted the prayer (The Legend of Juhal and Other Poems, by George Eliot, 2nd ed. 1874) :...thoughts sublime that pierce the night like stars, And w1th their mild persistence urge man's search To vaster issues.' But from such passages as these we...

...to the " Positivist offset to personal annihilation so winningly " presented by George Eliot : " ' 0 may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead...night like stars, And with their mild persistence urge men's search To vaster issues .... This is life to come !'" There is doubtless some analogy between...

...or way. " Positivist offset to personal annihilation so winningly "presented by George Eliot: " ' 0 may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead...night like stars, And with their mild persistence urge men's search To vaster issues .... This is life to come!'" There is doubtless some analogy between...

...among the im^t widely read of the century. She married, in iSSo, John Waiter Cross, of London. OH, h here enamels everything ; And sends the fowls te us, in care, On Of miserable aims that end with self, In thoughts sublime that pierce the night like stars, And with...

...Positivist, 4 in a degree far higher, brighter, and purer than Positivism teaches or can lead to : — 'O may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal...live again In minds made better by their presence. Living or dying you will be the Lord's. DIFFICULTIES. May I not look upon present difficulties, or...