| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Men of Iron by Howard Pyle: Then they went slowly back together, hand in hand, to the castle
world again.
At two o'clock Myles went to Lord George's apartments, and there
his friend and patron dressed him out in a costume better fitted
for the ceremony of presentation--a fur-trimmed jacket of green
brocaded velvet embroidered with golden thread, a black velvet
hood-cap rolled like a turban and with a jewel in the front, a
pair of crimson hose, and a pair of black velvet shoes trimmed
and stitched with gold-thread. Myles had never worn such splendid
clothes in his life before, and he could not but feel that they
became him well.
Men of Iron |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Maid Marian by Thomas Love Peacock: Ye pleasant sounds of bird and bee:
Ye sports of deer in sylvan bower:
Ye feasts beneath the greenwood tree:
Ye baskings in the vernal sun:
Ye slumbers in the summer dell:
Ye trophies that this arm has won:
And must ye hear your friar's farewell?
But the friar's farewell was not destined to be eternal.
He was domiciled as the family confessor of the earl and
countess of Huntingdon, who led a discreet and courtly life,
and kept up old hospitality in all its munificence,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table by Oliver Wendell Holmes: supposition that I was the sole and undisputed author of the above
comparison. But, inasmuch as I do affirm that the comparison
aforesaid was uttered by me in the firm belief that it was new and
wholly my own, and as I have good reason to think that I had never
seen or heard it when first expressed by me, and as it is well
known that different persons may independently utter the same idea,
- as is evinced by that familiar line from Donatus, -
"Pereant illi qui ante nos nostra dixerunt," -
now, therefore, I do request by this instrument that all well-
disposed persons will abstain from asserting or implying that I am
open to any accusation whatsoever touching the said comparison,
The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table |
