Gothic Literature

Scythrop did not despair. "Seven copies," he thought, "have been sold. Seven is a mystical number, and the omen is good. Let me find the seven purchasers of my seven copies, and they shall be the seven golden candle-sticks with which I will illuminate the world." --Thomas Love Peacock, Nightmare Abbey (1818)

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The Parliament of Monsters: Essay on Wordsworth and monstrosity by Karen Joan Kohoutek

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'Tis opportune to look back upon olden times, and contemplate our forefathers. Great examples grow thin, and to be fetched from the past world. Simplicity flies away, and iniquity comes at long strides upon us. We have enough to do to make up ourselves from present and past times, and the whole stage of things scarce serveth for our instruction. A complete piece of virtue must be made up from the centos of all ages, as all the beauties of Greece could make but one handsome Venus. --Thomas Browne, from Hydriotaphia (1658)