| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Mountains by Stewart Edward White: our horses, like a living creature. We felt the swing
and sweep of the route. The boldness of its stretches,
the freedom of its reaches for the opposite slope, the
wide curve of its horseshoes, all filled us with the
breath of an expansion which as yet the broad low
country only suggested.
Everything here was reminiscent of long ago. The
very names hinted stories of the Argonauts. Coarse
Gold Gulch, Whiskey Creek, Grub Gulch, Fine
Gold Post-Office in turn we passed. Occasionally,
with a fine round dash into the open, the trail drew
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Talisman by Walter Scott: with the singularly curious original. The translator seems to
have despaired of rendering into English verse the flights of
Oriental poetry; and, possibly, like many learned and ingenious
men, finding it impossible to discover the sense of the original,
he may have tacitly substituted his own.]
These verses may perhaps have been the not unnatural effusion of
some half-enlightened philosopher, who, in the fabled deity,
Arimanes, saw but the prevalence of moral and physical evil; but
in the ears of Sir Kenneth of the Leopard they had a different
effect, and, sung as they were by one who had just boasted
himself a descendant of demons, sounded very like an address of
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson: Duke of Orleans is more familiar with me than with any other
of the household; and I can bear witness he never said
anything against Duke Philip." (1) It will be remembered
that this person, with whom he was so anxious to stand well,
was no other than his hereditary enemy, the son of his
father's murderer. But the honest fellow bore no malice,
indeed not he. He began exchanging ballades with Philip,
whom he apostrophises as his companion, his cousin, and his
brother. He assures him that, soul and body, he is
altogether Burgundian; and protests that he has given his
heart in pledge to him. Regarded as the history of a
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