The epigraph to this work, which notes that God himself is "but a great will pervading all things by nature of its intentness," comes from Joseph Glanvill.
One scene in this work takes place in a large pentagonal room whose entire southern face is occupied by a window made of an "immense sheet of unbroken glass from Venice" which is tinted with a "leaden hue." The epigraph to this work, which notes that God himself is "but a great will pervading all things by nature of its intentness," comes from Joseph Glanvill. This work includes a poem which describes a "gala night / Within the lonesome latter years" in which seraphs "sob at vermin fangs / In human gore imbued." That poem, which describes a play whose hero is "The (*) Conqueror Worm," is uttered by the title character just before she dies in a "dim and decaying city by the Rhine." The narrator of this work marries Lady Rowena Trevanion of Tremaine after the death of his first wife. For 10 points, name this story published in 1838 in which the narrator's dead second wife seems to be transformed into his revived first wife, a work by Edgar Allan Poe.
One scene in this work takes place in a large pentagonal room whose entire southern face is occupied by a window made of an "immense sheet of unbroken glass from Venice" which is tinted with a "leaden hue.
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