Although Poe's work has many characteristics of Romanticism, "The Fall of the House of Usher", falls into the Gothic category. ... Usher knew that he had done this many days before "Long-long-long-many minutes, many hours, many days, have I heard it-yet I dared not-oh, pity me, miserable wretch that I am!-I dared not-I dared not speak! ... "While I gazed, this fissure rapidly widened-there came a fierce breath of the whirlwind-the entire orb of the satellite burst at once upon my sight...and the deep and dank tarn at my feet closed sullenly and silently over the fragments of the "House o...

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"Nelly, I am Heathcliff! He's always, always in my mind "not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myself, but as my own being... "" "...because he's more myself than I am. ... Oh that's not what I intend - that's not what I mean!... "...Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest as long as I am living! ...

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