..."^connect a by-gone time with the very present that is flitting away from us. It is a legend, prolonging itself from an epoch now gray in the distance, down...bringing along with it some of its legendary mist ; and the story has its moral, moreover, for it illustrates the truth that the wrongdoing of one generation...

...flitting away from us. It is a legend, prolonging itself from an epoch now gray in the distance, do%vn into our own broad day-light, and bringing along with it some of its legendary mist ; and the sr/iry has its moral, moreover, for it illustrates the truth that the wrongdoing of one generation...

...connect a by-gone time with the very present that is flitting away from us. It is a legend, prolonging itself, from an epoch now gray in the distance, down...characters and events for the sake of a picturesque efiectrj The narrative, it may be, is woven of so humble a texture as to require this advantage, and,...

...is flitting away from us. It is a legend, prolonging itself, from an epoch now gray m the distanee, down into our own broad daylight, and bringing along...or allow it to float almost imperceptibly about the charaeters and events for the sake of a pieturesque effeet. The narrative, it may be, is woven of so...

...connect a bygone time with the very present that is flitting away from us. It is a legend prolonging itself, from an epoch now gray in the distance, down...own broad daylight, and bringing along with it some oi its legendary mist, which the reader, according to his pleasure, may either disregard, or allow...

...connect a bYgonejigi^withjthe very present that is flitting away from us./ It is a lejjejtcTprololigIng itself, from an epoch now gray in the distance, down into our own broad daylight, and bringing along^ withjt some of its legendary mist,jwhichTEe~ reader, according to his~pleasure, mayVither disregard,...

...from an epoch now "gray in the distance," brings with it "some of its legendary mist, which the reader may either disregard, or allow it to float almost...and events for the sake of a picturesque effect." Hawthorne's great power lies here, — in the fact that he can make real to us unseen forces and spiritual...

...away from us. It is a legend prolonging itself from an epoch now grown gray in the distance, down to our own broad daylight, and bringing along with it some of its own legendary mist, which the reader, according to his pleasure, may either disregard, or allow it...

...connect a bygone time with the very present that is flitting away from us. It is a legend prolonging itself, from an epoch now gray in the distance, down...and events for the sake of a picturesque effect." It is needless to say that, in books like " The House of the Seven Gables," " The Scarlet Letter,"...

...connect a by -gone time with the very present that is flitting away from us. It Is a legend, prolonging itself, from an epoch now gray in the distance, down...may either disregard, or allow it to float almost imper ceptibly about the characters and events for the sake of a picturesque effect. The narrative,...