Laertes, was your father dear to you?
or are you like the painting of a sorrow, a face without a heart? ……….not that i think you did not love your fatherbut that i know love is begun by time, and that i see, in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. there lives within the very flame of lovea kind of wick or snuff that will abate it. and nothing is at a like goodness still. for goodness, growing to a pleurisy, dies in his own too-much. that we would do, we should do when we would, for this "would" changesand hath abatements and delays as many
houman naghibdec.23rd, 2011as there are tongues, are hands, are accidents. and then this "should" is like a spendthrift sighthat hurts by easing.—but to the quick of th' ulcer: hamlet comes back. what would you undertaketo show yourself in deed your father’s sonmore than in words?

What makes the literal, word-for-word translation of the metamorphosis hard to read?

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Read this passage from “the fall of the house of usher.” which element of gothic literature is not obvious in this passage? as if in the superhuman energy of his utterance there had been found the potency of a spell, the huge antique panels to which the speaker pointed threw slowly back, upon the instant, their ponderous and ebony jaws. it was the work of the rushing gust—but then without those doors there did stand the lofty and enshrouded figure of the lady madeline of usher. there was blood upon her white robes, and the evidence of some bitter struggle upon every portion of her emaciated frame. for a moment she remained trembling and reeling to and fro upon the threshold—then, with a low moaning cry, fell heavily inward upon the person of her brother, and in her violent and now final death agonies, bore him to the floor a corpse, and a victim to the terrors he had anticipated. bleak or remote settings supernatural or otherworldly elements macabre or violent incidents strong language full of dangerous meaning