...his (repeated) suicide by various serial hands. THE AUTOMATON ALWAYS DIES LAST The eye is the jirst circle; the horizon which it forms is the second; and throughout nature this primary jigure is repeated without end. Ralph Waldo Emerson Prince oj immediacy, he is even a sort oj/etish,...

...are never tired, so long as we can see far enough," Emerson wrote in Nature. In "Circles" he added "the eye is the first circle; the horizon which it forms is the second." 32. TJ to the Marquis dc Chastellux, June 7, 1785, and TJ to Edward Coles, August 25, 1814, in Jefferson,...

...Loy's use of Emerson's image of the circle, which in his writings is a symbol of visionary expansion: "The eye is the first circle; the horizon which it forms is the second."53 In Loy's poem, the "I" / "eye" forms a horizon of intimacy between two lovers, a dimension...

..."The Over-Soul") when he says "the soul circumscribes all things"?16 Emerson's essay "Circles" begins: "The eye is the first circle; the horizon which it...everywhere and its circumference nowhere. We are all our lifetimes reading the copious sense of this first of forms."17 Emerson could readily recognize the...

...juxtaposition of "eyes" and "dawn" reminds one of Emerson's statement in "Circles," noted earlier, that "The eye is the first circle; the horizon which it...nature this primary figure is repeated without end." 158 The entire passage is an extraordinary tour de force for the Emersonian artist-redeemer. It is...

...Horizont als zweiter Kreis folgt, der wiederum weitere und endlose Wiederholungen nach sich zieht: The eye is the first circle; the horizon which it...throughout nature this primary figure is repeated without end.5 Der Kreis wird als „höchstes Emblem" identifiziert, womit sich Emerson an die Tradition der...

...circle/sphere is "the highest emblem in the cipher of the world." In order to illustrate his point, he tells us "St. Augustine described the nature of God as a circle...centre was everywhere and its circumference nowhere." Emerson's preoccupation with this cipher is merely another chapter, another example, of what Borges...

...beginning with the image of the sphere of Nature scanned by seeing human beings, "her proud ephemerals": "The eye is the first circle; the horizon which it forms is the second." Emerson was a keen scanner of the earth's natural horizon. He lists "the horizon seen at sea" as one...

...opens his essay 011 " Circles." " The eye," he says, " is the first circle ; the horizon which it forms the second ; and throughout nature this primary figure...is the highest emblem in the cipher of the world. S. Augustine described the nature of God as a circle, whose centre was everywhere, and its circumference...

...every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please, — you can never have both. St. Augustine described the nature of God as a circle...centre was everywhere, and its circumference nowhere. To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for...