| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Poems of Goethe, Bowring, Tr. by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Annals............................................ 1819-25
Art and Antiquity................................. 1815Ä28
Theory of Colours................................. 1790-1810
In addition to the above, Goethe produced an almost endless
number of translations, criticisms, essays, &c.
III. POETICAL WORKS.
Other than those embraced in the plan of the present volume.
TITLE DATE,
Masonic Songs (7)................................. 1815Ä30
Poems on Pictures (21)............................ 1819, &c.
Invectives (44)................................... 1802Ä24
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Camille by Alexandre Dumas: recovery.
One of my good friends, M. H., will call on you; will you kindly
receive him? I have intrusted him with a commission, the result
of which I await impatiently. "Believe me, madame,
"Yours most faithfully."
This is the letter he sent me. Your father has a noble heart;
love him well, my friend, for there are few men so worthy of
being loved. This paper signed by his name has done me more good
than all the prescriptions of our great doctor.
This morning M. H. called. He seemed much embarrassed by the
delicate mission which M. Duval had intrusted to him. As a matter
Camille |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde: JACK. [Sententiously.] That, my dear young friend, is the theory
that the corrupt French Drama has been propounding for the last
fifty years.
ALGERNON. Yes; and that the happy English home has proved in half
the time.
JACK. For heaven's sake, don't try to be cynical. It's perfectly
easy to be cynical.
ALGERNON. My dear fellow, it isn't easy to be anything nowadays.
There's such a lot of beastly competition about. [The sound of an
electric bell is heard.] Ah! that must be Aunt Augusta. Only
relatives, or creditors, ever ring in that Wagnerian manner. Now,
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