| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from King Henry VI by William Shakespeare: them?--
Edward and Richard, you shall stay with me;
My brother Montague shall post to London.
Let noble Warwick, Cobham, and the rest,
Whom we have left protectors of the king,
With powerful policy strengthen themselves,
And trust not simple Henry nor his oaths.
MONTAGUE.
Brother, I go; I'll win them, fear it not:
And thus most humbly I do take my leave.
[Exit.]
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Within the Tides by Joseph Conrad: silence, with his eyes fixed, yet avoiding his friend, it was easy
to guess that it was not in the white-haired lady that he was
interested.
"Upon my word," he said, recovering his usual bearing. "It looks
to me as if I had been asked there only for the daughter to talk to
me."
He did not conceal that he had been greatly struck by her
appearance. Nobody could have helped being impressed. She was
different from everybody else in that house, and it was not only
the effect of her London clothes. He did not take her down to
dinner. Willie did that. It was afterwards, on the terrace. . . .
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Sportsman by Xenophon: forwards, and sideways, and lastly, by the genuine exaltation of
spirits, visible enough now, and the ecstasy of their pleasure, that
they are close upon the quarry.
[13] Lit. "Let them follow up the trail."
[14] Lit. "fawning and wagging their tails."
[15] Lit. "bed" or "lair."
[16] Or, "by rapid shiftings of attitude, by looks now thrown backward
and now forwards to the . . ." Reading {kai apo ton anablemmaton
kai emblemmaton ton epi tas kathedras tou l.}, or if with L. D.,
{kai apo ton a. kai emblemmaton eis ton ulen kai anastremmaton ton
epi tas k.}, transl. "now looking back at the huntsman and now
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