| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Baby Mine by Margaret Mayo: threateningly. "You've frozen the child parading him around the
streets."
"Let me have him, Alfred," begged Aggie sweetly; "I'll put him in
his crib and keep him warm."
Reluctantly Alfred released the boy. His eyes followed him to
the crib with anxiety. "Where's his nurse?" he asked, as he
glanced first from one to the other.
Zoie and Jimmy stared about the room as though expecting the
desired person to drop from the ceiling. Then Zoie turned upon
her unwary accomplice.
"Jimmy," she called in a threatening tone, "where IS his nurse?"
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Hiero by Xenophon: [8] {alogous}, i.e. "without speach and reason"; cf. modern Greek {o
alogos} = the horse (sc. the animal par excellence). See
"Horsemanship," viii. 14.
[9] {ede}, "ipso facto."
[10] See "Anab." I. vii. 4; Frotscher ap. Breit. cf. Cic. "ad Fam." v.
17. 5, "ut et hominem te et virum esse meminisses."
[11] Or, "joyance."
To these arguments Hiero replied: Nay, but, Simonides, the honours and
proud attributes bestowed on tyrants have much in common with their
love-makings, as I described them. Like honours like loves, the pair
are of a piece.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from An Unsocial Socialist by George Bernard Shaw: went to the pillow, and bent over it, examining the face closely.
"Poor child!" he said again, tenderly. Then, with sudden
reaction, apostrophizing himself instead of his wife, "Poor ass!
Poor idiot! Poor jackanapes! Here is the body of a woman who was
nearly as old as myself, and perhaps wiser, and here am I
moralizing over it as if I were God Almighty and she a baby! The
more you remind a man of what he is, the more conceited he
becomes. Monstrous! I shall feel immortal presently."
He touched the cheek with a faint attempt at roughness, to feel
how cold it was. Then he touched his own, and remarked:
"This is what I am hastening toward at the express speed of sixty
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