The house of the seven gables . ed maiden, in a long-waisted silk gown, and with thestrange horror of a turban on her head! Her visage isnot even ugly. It is redeemed from insignificance onlyby the contraction of her eyebrows into a near-sightedscowl. And, finally, her great life-trial seems to be, that,after sixty years of idleness, she finds it convenient to earncomfortable bread by setting up a shop in a small , if we look through all the heroic fortunesof mankind, we shall find this same entanglement ofsomething mean and trivial with whatever is noblest injoy or sorrow. Lif
The house of the seven gables . ed maiden, in a long-waisted silk gown, and with thestrange horror of a turban on her head! Her visage isnot even ugly. It is redeemed from insignificance onlyby the contraction of her eyebrows into a near-sightedscowl. And, finally, her great life-trial seems to be, that,after sixty years of idleness, she finds it convenient to earncomfortable bread by setting up a shop in a small , if we look through all the heroic fortunesof mankind, we shall find this same entanglement ofsomething mean and trivial with whatever is noblest injoy or sorrow. Life is made up of marble and , without all the deeper trust in a comprehensivesympathy above us, we might hence be Led to suspect the 52 THE HOUSE OF THE SEVEN GABLES, insult 01 a sneer, as well as an immitigable frown, on theiron countenance of fate. What is called poetic insightis the gift of discerning, in this sphere of strangelymingled elements, the beauty and the majesty which arecompelled to assume a garb so
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