| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Unseen World and Other Essays by John Fiske: Natural laws were found to operate on the Rhine as well as on the
Tagus, and at the end of the great war of independence, Holland
was not only better equipped than Spain for a European conflict,
but was rapidly ousting her from the East Indian countries which
she had in vain attempted to colonize.
But if we were to take up all the interesting and instructive
themes suggested by Mr. Motley's work, we should never come to an
end. We must pass over the exciting events narrated in these last
volumes; the victory of Nieuport, the siege of Ostend, the
marvellous career of Maurice, the surprising exploits of Spinola.
We have attempted not so much to describe Mr. Motley's book as to
The Unseen World and Other Essays |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from When the World Shook by H. Rider Haggard: have slept for two hundred and fifty thousand years." Here Bastin
opened his eyes. "If that was so, where was your mind all this
time?"
"If by my mind you mean spirit, O Humphrey, I have to answer
that at present I do not know for certain. I think, however, that
it dwelt elsewhere, perhaps in other bodies on the earth, or some
different earth. At least, I know that my heart is very full of
memories which as yet I cannot unroll and read."
"Great heavens, this is madness!" said Bickley.
"In the great heavens," she answered slowly, "there are many
things which you, poor man, would think to be madness, but yet
When the World Shook |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy: -- bless your souls!"
Gabriel thought fit to change the subject. "You
must be a very aged man, malter, to have sons growed
mild and ancient" he remarked.
"Father's so old that 'a can't mind his age, can ye,
father?" interposed Jacob. "And he growled terrible
crooked too, lately" Jacob continued, surveying his
father's figure, which was rather more bowed than his own.
"Really one may say that father there is three-double."
"Crooked folk will last a long while." said the maltster,
grimly, and not in the best humour.
Far From the Madding Crowd |
