 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 ;...  Nature: Addresses, and Lectures - Page 17by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 315 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Zhaoming Qian - 2003 - 320 pages
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 | Laura Dassow Walls - 2003 - 302 pages
..."transparency" that will follow immediately in his most notorious passage: "I become a transparent eyeball. I am nothing. I see all. The currents of the Universal Being circulate •99 through me; I am part or particle of God. The name of the nearest friend sounds then foreign... | |
 | James A. Russell - 2003 - 208 pages
...blithe air and uplifted into infinite spaee. all mean egutism vamshes. I hecome a transparent eyehall; I am nothing; I see all: the currents of the Universal Being circulate tbrough me; I am part or parcel of God. The name of the nearest friend sounds then foreign and accidental;... | |
 | John Gatta - 2004 - 304 pages
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 | Gary Storhoff - 2004 - 278 pages
...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...circulate through me; I am part or particle of God. 17 It is as if this passage is seminal to Johnson's corpus. In order to "see all," the self becomes... | |
 | Richard Gray - 2004 - 912 pages
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 | Brady Harrison - 2004 - 260 pages
...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...circulate through me; I am part or particle of God." But where Emerson experiences a vanishing of mean egotism, where he finds a higher ethic or a better... | |
 | Regina Schwartz - 2004 - 272 pages
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