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
| Robert Malcolm Gay - 1928 - 276 pages
...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 and parcel of God." "Yet it is certain that the power to produce this delight does not reside in nature,... | |
| 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;... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| Robert E. Belknap - 2004 - 284 pages
...Emersonian feat expressed in Nature, in which "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 parcel of God" (£, 10). In the poem's sister catalogue, section 9, the listed imperatives reveal the... | |
| David Hackett Fischer - 2005 - 880 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 Being circulate through me; I am part or parcel of God."10 The Transcendentalists of the Concord Circle were all inspired by the image of Emerson's... | |
| Mark Sedgwick - 2004 - 384 pages
...the woods is perpetual youth. Within these plantations of God ... I become a transparent eye ball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or parcel of God.58 Guenon would be altogether more pessimistic. These, then, were the origins of Guenon's... | |
| John Herlihy - 2005 - 198 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 Being circulate through me; I am part or parcel of God.'9 The transparent eyeball becomes an expression to denote the experience of the miracle... | |
| Daniel J. Philippon - 2004 - 402 pages
...(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. 53. I disagree, therefore, with Oravec's belief... | |
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