 Standing on the bare ground,—my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space,—all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing ; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part...  Merrimack: Or, Life at the Loom; a Tale - Page 211by Day Kellogg Lee - 1854 - 353 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...can befall me in life,—no disgrace, no calamity, (leaving me my eyes,) which nature cannot repair. Standing on the bare ground,—my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space,—all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eye-ball. I am nothing. I see all. The currents... | |
 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 600 pages
...can befall me in life,—no disgrace, no calamity (leaving me my eyes), which nature cannot repair. Standing on the bare ground,—my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space,—all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing ; I see all; the currents... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - 1891 - 298 pages
...can befall me in life—no disgrace, no calamity (leaving me my eyes), which uature cannot repair. Standing on the bare ground—my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space—all mean egotism vanishes, I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - 1906 - 324 pages
...can befall me in life —no disgrace, no calamity (leaving me my eyes), which nature cannot repair. Standing on the bare ground—my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space—all mean egotism vanishes, I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents... | |
 | Arthur Heming - 1921 - 384 pages
...can befall me in life—no disgrace, no calamity (leaving me my eyes)—which Nature cannot repair. Standing on the bare ground—my head bathed by the blithe air and uplifted into infinite space—all mean egoism vanishes. ... I am the lover of uncontained and immortal beauty." So, to make... | |
 | 1850 - 44 pages
...Mr. Emerson defines his own position more exactly in the following precise and philosophical terms. " Standing on the bare ground,—my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space,—all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eye-ball. I am nothing. I see all. The currents... | |
 | Donald M. McAllister - 1982 - 324 pages
...nothing can befall me in life-no disgrace, no calamity (leaving me my eyes), which nature cannot repair. Standing on the bare ground-my head bathed by the blithe air and uplifted into infinite space-all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents... | |
 | R. C. De Prospo - 1985 - 308 pages
...greatness of the Creator; rather, Emerson feels a kindred stature that makes him instantly a colossus, "standing on the bare ground—my head bathed by the blithe air and uplifted into infinite space," himself figuratively spanning the supposed gap between upper and lower realms and thereby denying... | |
 | Edwin Harrison Cady, Louis J. Budd - 1988 - 300 pages
...passages, the "transparent eyeball" statement in Nature: "In the woods we return to reason and faith. . . . Standing on the bare ground,—my head bathed by the blithe air and up" Worlds, III, 64, and II, 284. " Letters, II, 29. "IMN, v, 371. 17 IMN, V, 273. lifted into infinite... | |
 | Vidagdha Meredith Bennett - 1991 - 270 pages
...reminded, in some degree, of Emerson's reflections on the universal mind and of his famous paragraph: Standing on the bare ground—my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space—all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents... | |
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