| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Manon Lescaut by Abbe Prevost: the street, to enjoy so entertaining and extraordinary a scene.
The officer challenged him with a pistol to his breast, and then
told him, in a civil tone, that he did not want either his money
or his life; but that if he hesitated to follow him, or if he
gave the slightest alarm, he would blow his brains out. G----
M----, seeing that his assailant was supported by three soldiers,
and perhaps not uninfluenced by a dread of the pistol, yielded
without further resistance. I saw him led away like a lamb.
X
What lost a world, and bade a hero fly?
The timid tear in Cleopatra's eye.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from In the Cage by Henry James: was glad she had never met him in that way before: she reaped with
such ecstasy the benefit of his not being able to think she passed
often. She jumped in two seconds to the determination that he
should even suppose it to be the very first time and the very
oddest chance: this was while she still wondered if he would
identify or notice her. His original attention had not, she
instinctively knew, been for the young woman at Cocker's; it had
only been for any young woman who might advance to the tune of her
not troubling the quiet air, and in fact the poetic hour, with
ugliness. Ah but then, and just as she had reached the door, came
his second observation, a long light reach with which, visibly and
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Eryxias by Platonic Imitator: There are several passages which are either corrupt or extremely ill-
expressed. But there is a modern interest in the subject of the dialogue;
and it is a good example of a short spurious work, which may be attributed
to the second or third century before Christ.
ERYXIAS
by
Platonic Imitator (see Appendix II above)
Translated by Benjamin Jowett
INTRODUCTION.
Much cannot be said in praise of the style or conception of the Eryxias.
It is frequently obscure; like the exercise of a student, it is full of
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