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... individual men who really lived in seventeenth- century Massachusetts . In the second volume , then , Mr. Miller writes a more nearly traditional kind of narrative , in which individual men do triumph and suffer as he traces the conse ...
... individual men who really lived in seventeenth- century Massachusetts . In the second volume , then , Mr. Miller writes a more nearly traditional kind of narrative , in which individual men do triumph and suffer as he traces the conse ...
Page 109
... individual objects and actions as the interpretations of seventeenth - century characters . Let us examine two kinds ... individuals who may wish to escape it . We must notice , too , that Hawthorne calls Pearl " a born outcast of the ...
... individual objects and actions as the interpretations of seventeenth - century characters . Let us examine two kinds ... individuals who may wish to escape it . We must notice , too , that Hawthorne calls Pearl " a born outcast of the ...
Page 111
... individual character and the individual soul and perhaps the individual sin were virtually hidden from view . The same kind of double relevance gives great value to Haw- thorne's exploitation of the natural landscape in this romance ...
... individual character and the individual soul and perhaps the individual sin were virtually hidden from view . The same kind of double relevance gives great value to Haw- thorne's exploitation of the natural landscape in this romance ...
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