...of the mind, from breathless noon to grimmest midnight. Nature is a setting that fits equally well a comic or a mourning piece. In good health, the air...Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or parcel of God. The name of the nearest fr end sounds then foreign and accidental: to be brothers, to...

...pensioner, not the, source of this ethereal water; from some higher energy these visions come," . . . "The currents of the Universal Being circulate through me ; I am part or particle of God" (Emerson's Essays, quoted from Moses, op. cit., 123). with honour, singing Thy works without ceasing,...

...Nature says — he is my creature, and maugre all his impertinent griefs, he shall be glad with me." "Standing on the bare ground — my head bathed by...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,...

...powers, can he prepare for the "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...

...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;...

...transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson touches upon this idea in his journals: 'Standing on bare ground,' he says, 'my head bathed by the blithe air and uplifted into...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...

...infamous) sentences in his "Nature." "Standing on the bare ground," Emerson wrote, "my head bathed in the blithe air and uplifted into infinite space —...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...

...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;...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...

...importantly it accomplishes Whitman's version ofthat Emersonian feat expressed in Nature, in which "all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent...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...

..."Standing on the bare ground—my head bathed by the blithe air and uplifted into the infinite space—all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball;...Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or parcel of God." According to Emerson, nature stands outside us, but it is also part of us and calls...