| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Maid Marian by Thomas Love Peacock: to him as matter of serious alarm; and if her cheerfulness
gave him hope on the one hand by indicating a spirit superior
to all disappointments, it was suspicious to him on the other,
as arising from some latent certainty of being soon united
to the earl. All these circumstances concurred to render
their songs of the vanished deer and greenwood archery and
Yoicks and Harkaway, extremely mal-a-propos, and to make
his anger boil and bubble in the cauldron of his spirit,
till its more than ordinary excitement burst forth with sudden
impulse into active manifestation.
[1] Roasting by a slow fire for the love of God.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Republic by Plato: I entirely agree with you.
And so, I said, we may consider three out of the four virtues to have been
discovered in our State. The last of those qualities which make a state
virtuous must be justice, if we only knew what that was.
The inference is obvious.
The time then has arrived, Glaucon, when, like huntsmen, we should surround
the cover, and look sharp that justice does not steal away, and pass out of
sight and escape us; for beyond a doubt she is somewhere in this country:
watch therefore and strive to catch a sight of her, and if you see her
first, let me know.
Would that I could! but you should regard me rather as a follower who has
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Jerusalem Delivered by Torquato Tasso: XXXIV
Furious, tofore the foremost of his rank,
In sturdy steel forth stept the warrior bold,
The first he smote down from his saddle sank,
The next under his steel lay on the mould,
Under the Saracen's spear the worthies shrank,
No breastplate could that cursed tree outhold,
When that was broke his precious sword he drew,
And whom he hit, he felled, hurt, or slew.
XXXV
Clorinda slew Ardelio; aged knight,
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