 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...  Emerson: His Contribution to Literature - Page 64by David Lee Maulsby - 1911 - 177 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Gary Storhoff - 2004 - 278 pages
...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 or particle of God. 17 It is as if this passage... | |
 | Kevin Hart, Geoffrey H. Hartman - 2004 - 252 pages
...primacy." Le Pas au-delà (Paris: Gallimard, 1973), 124-25. 8. Steven Shapiro quotes Emerson's "Nature": "All mean egotism vanishes, I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all." He adds, "The narcissistic integrity of the ego is less important than the purity of sight itself."... | |
 | Regina M. Schwartz - 2004 - 274 pages
...trust religious traditions and institutions. Emerson famously presents his mystic vision in Nature: "I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God."19 This vision gives Emerson... | |
 | Daniel J. Philippon - 2004 - 402 pages
...Science 5 (1894): 783, and Academy 47 (1895): 503. 51. Compare Emerson's famous passage in Nature (1836): "I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; 1 am part or parcel of God" (39). 52. See also Wyatt 45.... | |
 | William R. Hutchison - 2003 - 294 pages
...Emerson in his most famous prose piece, "Nature," had averred that "standing on the bare ground . . . and uplifted into infinite space,— all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball." Later in the same essay he reported, "I expand and live in the warm day, like corn and melons." Cranch... | |
 | Brady Harrison - 2004 - 260 pages
...greater being. As Emerson puts it in that most famous passage in American letters, the self becomes "a transparent eye-ball": "I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God." But where Emerson experiences... | |
 | David Brown - 2004 - 476 pages
...despite its essentially immanent approach, as in Emerson's often quoted words: 'the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or parcel of God'. 143 The impact can be seen in painters such as John Kensett, SR Gifford, and, though at more of a remove,... | |
 | Judith Fitzgerald, Michael Oren Fitzgerald - 2005 - 234 pages
...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...eye-ball, I am nothing; I see all, the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God.... In the wilderness, I find... | |
 | Finis Dunaway - 2005 - 271 pages
...observer spiritual enlightenment and a pathway to the deity. As Emerson famously declared in Nature: "Standing on the bare ground, — my head bathed by...eye-ball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God." Although the Darwinian revolution... | |
 | Rebecca Krinke - 2005 - 238 pages
...feel that nothing can befal me in life, - no disgrace, no calamity . . . which nature cannot repair. Standing on the bare ground - my head bathed by the...eye-ball. I am nothing. I see all. The currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God.21 Ralph Waldo Emerson Emerson... | |
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