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" 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 57
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Nature - Conduct of Life

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2006 - 320 pages
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American Literature

Stanley T. Williams - 2006 - 164 pages
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Longing: Psychoanalytic Musings on Desire

Jean Petrucelli - 2006 - 292 pages
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The Yale Book of Quotations

Fred R. Shapiro - 2006 - 1092 pages
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Aspiring to the Landscape: On Painting and the Subject of Nature

Petra Halkes - 2006 - 201 pages
...a 'transparent eye-ball.' Emerson wrote: 'Standing on the bare ground, my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space, - all mean...the Universal being circulate through me; I am part and parcel of God.' (in Rosenblum 1975: 22). 4 The Romantic symbol's seducing promise of the end of...
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American Biography

Carl Rollyson - 2006 - 301 pages
...the natural, Emerson wrote in "Nature": "Standing on the bare ground, my head bathed by the blithe air and uplifted into infinite space, all mean egotism...the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part and parcel with God." Wright had the audacity to try this out in the heart of New York City, creating...
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Trees in Nature, Myth and Art

J. Ernest Phythian - 2006 - 364 pages
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American Poetry: Whitman to the Present

Robert Rehder, Patrick Vincent - 2006 - 252 pages
...divine current that circulates through him: Standing on the bare ground - a head bathed in the blithe air and uplifted into infinite space - all mean egotism...currents of the universal being circulate through me. (Emerson, Nature 6) The single self, for Emerson, is the apotheosis of an all encompassing universal...
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The Midwestern Pastoral: Place and Landscape in Literature of the American ...

William Barillas - 2006 - 280 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 eye-ball;...circulate through me; I am part or particle of God" (Essays, 10). For all its implications, the passage needs to be appreciated for its spiritual geography....
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American Renaissance: Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitman

Francis Otto Matthiessen - 2006 - 678 pages
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