| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Royalty Restored/London Under Charles II by J. Fitzgerald Molloy: disturbed the quiet of the universities. Time did ample justice
to both men; lowering Settle to play the part of a dragon in a
booth at Bartholomew Fair, and consecrating Dryden to
immortality.
Before the clamour resulting from this dispute had ended,
Rochester, fickle and eccentric, grew weary of his PROTEGE and
consequently abandoned him. He had not, however, tired of
humiliating the laureate, and to mortify him the more, introduced
a new poet at court, This was John Crowne, a man then little
known to the town, and now best remembered as author of "Sir
Courtly Nice," a comedy of wit and entertainment. So well did he
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells: under cover of a thicket of trees and bushes, to the edge of
Wimbledon Common, stretching wide and far.
That dark expanse was lit in patches by yellow gorse and
broom; there was no red weed to be seen, and as I prowled,
hesitating, on the verge of the open, the sun rose, flooding
it all with light and vitality. I came upon a busy swarm of
little frogs in a swampy place among the trees. I stopped
to look at them, drawing a lesson from their stout resolve
to live. And presently, turning suddenly, with an odd
feeling of being watched, I beheld something crouching
amid a clump of bushes. I stood regarding this. I made a
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The New Machiavelli by H. G. Wells: having found themselves--completely. One envied them at times
extraordinarily. I was attracted, I was dazzled--and at the same
time there was something about Bailey's big wrinkled forehead, his
lisping broad mouth, the gestures of his hands and an uncivil
preoccupation I could not endure. . . .
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Their effect upon me was from the outset very considerable.
Both of them found occasion on that first visit of mine to talk to
me about my published writings and particularly about my then just
published book THE NEW RULER, which had interested them very much.
It fell in indeed so closely with their own way of thinking that I
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