 | Ohio State Bar Association - 1897 - 280 стор.
...the poet's aspiration—an immortality not made up of renown, but living in the lives of other men: "May I reach That purest heaven, be to other souls...that have no cruelty, Be the sweet presence of a good suffused And in diffusion ever more intense." [VII.] MEMORIAL ON THE LATE WILLIAM J.' GILMORE. William... | |
 | Elbert Hubbard - 1928 - 398 стор.
...and work. — Elben Hubbard Journeys tfje of <§ooti jfHen anb GEORGE ELIOT -/ /. t GEORGE ELIOT " May I reach That purest heaven, be to other souls...love, Beget the smiles that have no cruelty — Be the good presence of a good diffused, And in diffusion ever more intense. So shall I join the choir invisible... | |
 | Phineas Garrett, Charles Chalmers Shoemaker, Henry Gaines Hawn - 1893 - 280 стор.
...one of the very privileges of reaeon, being confined to the human species. May I reach That putest heaven, be to other souls The cup of strength in some...pure love, Beget the smiles that have no cruelty. George Eliot. Modesty is the brightest jewel in the crown of womanhood. He who shuts his eyes repining,... | |
 | 1907 - 328 стор.
...no one to whom one can more truly apply the fine lines of George Eliot than to Charlotte Joslin: " May I reach That purest heaven, be to other souls The cup of strength in some great agon;, Enkindle generous ardor, (red pure love, Beget the smiles that have no cruelty, Be the sweet... | |
 | J. S. Whale - 1976 - 204 стор.
...bears itself nobly. Life to come, she says, is to ' be the sweet presence of a good diffused ' ; ' to be to other souls the cup of strength in some great agony. . . '. The poem is really a prayer, not to God of course, but to George Eliot: O may I join the choir... | |
 | 1904 - 484 стор.
...the world, Breathing as beauteous order that controls With growing sway the growing life of man. ' This is life to come Which martyred men have made more glorious For us who strive to follow. May we reach That purest heaven, be to other souls The cup of strength in some great agony, Enkindle generous... | |
 | Hallie Quinn Brown - 1988 - 348 стор.
...George Eliot's poem seems to breathe her prayer: "May I reach the highest heaven. Be to other souls a cup of strength in some great agony, Enkindle generous ardor, feed pure love, Beget the smile that knows no cruelty, So may I join the choir invisible, Whose music makes the gladness of the... | |
 | Gerald Parsons - 1988 - 242 стор.
...in the world, Breathing as beauteous order that controls With growing sway the growing life of man. May I reach That purest heaven, be to other souls...of strength in some great agony, Enkindle generous ardour, feed pure love, Beget the smiles that have no cruelty — Be the sweet presence of a good diffused.... | |
 | Lance St. John Butler - 1990 - 244 стор.
...worthier image for the sanctuary, And shaped it forth before the multitude Divinely human This is the life to come, Which martyred men have made more glorious...other souls The cup of strength in some great agony .... The movement of thought is that of sin and repentance - we may look back on our failures, our... | |
 | J. F. Fuller - 1996 - 342 стор.
...set the true lyre of Buddhism reverberating- in her grand and noble prayer, "The Choir Invisible." May I reach That purest heaven, be to other souls...of strength in some great agony. Enkindle generous ardour, feed pure love, Beget the smiles that have no cruelty, Be the sweet presence of a good diftus'd... | |
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May I reach That purest heaven, be to other souls The cup of strength in some great agony, Enkindle generous ardour, feed pure love, Beget the smiles that have no cruelty — Be the sweet presence of a good diffused, And in diffusion ever more intense.... 
