| 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: consolation in the peace of a country life. Through the
influence of his old friend, Lord St. Albans, and the Duke of
Buckingham, he obtained a lease of the queen's lands at Chertsey,
which produced him an income of about three hundred pounds a
year--a sum sufficient for his few wants and moderate desires.
He resided here but two years, when he died, on the 28th of July,
1667. Milton, on hearing of his death, was troubled. The three
greatest English poets, he declared, were Spenser, Shakespeare,
and Cowley.
The ungrateful neglect with which he was treated in life was
sought to be atoned for by useless honours paid him after death.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Story of an African Farm by Olive Schreiner: and causing the old German to look up over his glasses, "how long did that
man say he had been walking?"
"Since this morning, poor fellow! A gentleman--not accustomed to walking--
horse died--poor fellow!" said the German, pushing out his lip and glancing
commiseratingly over his spectacles in the direction of the bed where the
stranger lay, with his flabby double chin, and broken boots through which
the flesh shone.
"And do you believe him, Uncle Otto?"
"Believe him? why of course I do. He himself told me the story three times
distinctly."
"If," said the girl slowly, "he had walked for only one day his boots would
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Europeans by Henry James: limpid nature," he said, solemnly.
"She has always been a dormant nature. She was waiting for a touchstone.
But now she is beginning to awaken."
"Don't praise her to me!" said Mr. Brand, with a little quaver in his voice.
"If you have the advantage of me that is not generous."
"My dear sir, I am melting with generosity!" exclaimed Felix.
"And I am not praising my cousin. I am simply attempting a
scientific definition of her. She doesn't care for abstractions.
Now I think the contrary is what you have always fancied--
is the basis on which you have been building. She is extremely
preoccupied with the concrete. I care for the concrete, too.
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