| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Cromwell by William Shakespeare: And of this Popish order from our Realm.
I am no enemy to religion,
But what is done, it is for England's good.
What did they serve for but to feed a sort
Of lazy Abbots and of full fed Friars?
They neither plow, nor sow, and yet they reap
The fat of all the Land, and suck the poor:
Look, what was theirs, is in King Henry's hands;
His wealth before lay in the Abbey lands.
GARDINER.
Indeed these things you have alleged, my Lord,
|
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Madam How and Lady Why by Charles Kingsley: you strike it smartly enough underneath. By that same law (for
there is a law for every sort of motion) it is that the earthquake
shock sometimes hurls great rocks off a cliff into the valley
below. The shock runs through the mountain till it comes to the
cliff at the end of it; and then the face of the cliff, if it be
at all loose, flies off into the air. You may see the very same
thing happen, if you will put marbles or billiard-balls in a row
touching each other, and strike the one nearest you smartly in the
line of the row. All the balls stand still, except the last one,
and that flies off. The shock, like the earthquake shock, has run
through them all; but only the end one, which had nothing beyond
|
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Memorabilia by Xenophon: 40; Diod. Sic. iv. 79; Paus. vii. 4. 6.
Yes, I know the old story (he answered).[50]
[50] Or, "Ah yes, of course; the tale is current."
Soc. Or have you not heard of the "woes of Palamedes,"[51] that
commonest theme of song, how for his wisdom's sake Odysseus envied him
and slew him?
[51] See Virg. "Aen." ii. 90; Hygin. 105; Philostr. "Her." x.
Euth. That tale also is current.
Soc. And how many others, pray, do you suppose have been seized on
account of their wisdom, and despatched to the great king and at his
court enslaved?[52]
The Memorabilia |
