Misery is manifold. The wretchedness of earth is multiform.
Overreaching the wide horizon as the rainbow, its hues are as
various as the hues of the arch,--as distinct too, yet as
intimately blended. Overreaching the wide horizon as the
rainbow. How is it that from beauty I have derived a type of
unloveliness?--from the covenant of peace a simile of sorrow?
But as, in ethics, evil is a consequence of good, so, in fact,
out of joy is sorrow born. Either the memory of past bliss is
the anguish of to-day, or the agonies which have their
origin in the ecstasies which .
My baptismal name is Egaeus; that of my family I will not
mention. Yet there are no towers in the land more time-honoured
than my gloomy, grey, hereditary halls. Our line has been called
a race of visionaries; and in many striking particulars--in the
character of the family mansion--in the frescoes of the chief
saloon--in the tapestries of the dormitories--in the chiselling
of some buttresses in the armory--but more especially in the
gallery of antique paintings--in the fashion of the library
chamber--and, lastly, in the very peculiar nature of the
library's contents, there is more than sufficient evidence to
warrant the belief.
The recollections of my earliest years
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