 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...  The United Presbyterian Magazine - Page 571848Full view - About this book
 | Jane Greer - 2004 - 276 pages
...and uplifted into infinite space, — all mean egotism vanishes. 1 become a transparent eye-ball; ! am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part of parcel of God. From Popular to Profound While neither the Romantics nor the Transcendentalists were... | |
 | 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."... | |
 | 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... | |
 | David Brown - 2006 - 436 pages
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 | Gene Bammel - 2005 - 438 pages
...has a unique blend of religious and nature mysticism: "In the woods we return to reason and faith. Standing on the bare ground, my head bathed by the...Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or parcel of God. I am the lover of uncontained and immortal beauty." Emerson unites traditional theistic... | |
 | Finis Dunaway - 2005 - 271 pages
...Emerson famously declared in Nature: "Standing on the bare ground, — my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space, — all mean...circulate through me; I am part or particle of God." Although the Darwinian revolution revealed a nature indifferent to human desires and meanings, an amoral... | |
 | John T. Cumbler - 2005 - 340 pages
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 | Judith Fitzgerald, Michael Oren Fitzgerald - 2005 - 234 pages
...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...circulate through me; I am part or particle of God.... In the wilderness, I find something more dear and connate than in streets or villages. In the tranquil... | |
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