...Indeed, we are but shadows : we are not endowed with real life, and all that seems most real about us is but the thinnest substance of a dream, — till...are beings of reality and inheritors of eternity. This extract is Hawthorne's biography in epitome, to which it is only necessary to add that the presentiment...

...impressed by that truth which led him to say : " We are but shadows, and all that seems most real about us is but the thinnest substance of a dream, — till...are beings of reality and inheritors of eternity." Opposed to the erring minister stands Roger Chillingworth, upon whom the curse acts more hideously,...