| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from King Henry VI by William Shakespeare: [Trumpets sound. Enter Reignier, below.]
REIGNIER.
Welcome, brave earl, into our territories:
Command in Anjou what your honor pleases.
SUFFOLK.
Thanks, Reignier, happy for so sweet a child,
Fit to be made companion with a king:
What answer makes your grace unto my suit?
REIGNIER.
Since thou dost deign to woo her little worth
To be the princely bride of such a lord;
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Emma by Jane Austen: Yes, my dear, I ran home, as I said I should, to help grandmama
to bed, and got back again, and nobody missed me.--I set off without
saying a word, just as I told you. Grandmama was quite well,
had a charming evening with Mr. Woodhouse, a vast deal of chat,
and backgammon.--Tea was made downstairs, biscuits and baked apples
and wine before she came away: amazing luck in some of her throws:
and she inquired a great deal about you, how you were amused,
and who were your partners. `Oh!' said I, `I shall not forestall Jane;
I left her dancing with Mr. George Otway; she will love to tell you
all about it herself to-morrow: her first partner was Mr. Elton,
I do not know who will ask her next, perhaps Mr. William Cox.'
Emma |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson: turfy soil of the Ring itself. In truth the situation was
well qualified to give a zest to Christian doctrines, had
there been any wanted. But these congregations assembled
under conditions at once so formidable and romantic as made a
zealot of the most cold. They were the last of the faithful;
God, who had averted His face from all other countries of the
world, still leaned from heaven to observe, with swelling
sympathy, the doings of His moorland remnant; Christ was by
them with His eternal wounds, with dropping tears; the Holy
Ghost (never perfectly realised nor firmly adopted by
Protestant imaginations) was dimly supposed to be in the
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