...we seek with insatiable desire is to forget ourselves, to be surprised out of our propriety, to lose our sempiternal memory, and to do something without...Cromwell, "never rises so high as when he knows not whither he is going." Dreams and drunkenness, the use of opium and alcohol are the semblance and counterfeit...

...we seek with insatiable desire is to forget ourselves, to be surprised out of our propriety, to lose our sempiternal memory and to do something without knowing how or why; in short to draw a new circle."32 And again, "I simply experiment, an endless seeker, with no Past at my back."33 Emerson...

...seek with insatiable desire, is to forget ourselves, to be surprised out of our propriety, to lose our sempiternal memory, and to do something without...knowing how or why; in short, to draw a new circle."" The last sentence here portrays surprise not as a limitation that, as it were, causes us to lose our...

...light of the same truth with ourselves, nay are for the moment beads of ether strung on the same ray? A man, said Oliver Cromwell, never rises so high as when he knows not whither he is going.147 And shall we not deserve that grace of the good heaven to let go for once our...

...we seek with insatiable desire is to forget ourselves, to be surprised out of our propriety, to lose our sempiternal memory and to do something without...The way of life is wonderful; it is by abandonment" (EI 311). Overflow 1891: Twenty years after the event, TW Higginson, with Mabel Loomis Todd, the first...

...we seek with insatiable desire is to forget ourselves, to be surprised out of our propriety, to lose our sempiternal memory, and to do something without...The way of life is wonderful; it is by abandonment" ("Circles," RIVE, 306). Duncan cultivates this attitude of enthusiasm and abandonment with even greater...

...There we find that "the one thing which we seek with insatiable desire is to forget ourselves . . . and to do something without knowing how or why; in short to draw a new circle" (321). The woman who has returned to the room and who remains in the light may be considered to be...

...we seek with insatiable desire is to forget ourselves, to be surprised out of our propriety, to lose our sempiternal memory and to do something without...Cromwell, "never rises so high as when he knows not whither he is going." Dreams and drunkenness, the use of opium and alcohol are the semblance and counterfeit...

...we seek with insatiable desire is to forget ourselves, to be surprised out of our propriety, to lose our sempiternal memory and to do something without...knowing how or why; in short to draw a new circle." Do not most of us feel cramped in our own narrowness? Are we not bored by ourselves? The I in each...

...insatiable desire," Emerson writes, "is to forget ourselves, to be surprised out of our propriety, to lose our sempiternal memory, and to do something without knowing how or why; in short, to draw a new circle."17 Surprise is the satisfaction the self receives (or gives itself) when it (conveniently)...