| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Legend of Montrose by Walter Scott: Nevis; and so shall this haughty Knight, and this triumphant
Thane, never learn the secret I alone can impart; a secret which
would make Ardenvohr's heart leap with joy, were he in the death
agony, and which the Earl of Menteith would purchase at the price
of his broad earldom.--Come hither, Annot Lyle," he said, raising
himself with unexpected strength; "fear not the sight of him to
whom thou hast clung in infancy. Tell these proud men, who
disdain thee as the issue of mine ancient race, that thou art no
blood of ours,--no daughter of the race of the Mist, but born in
halls as lordly, and cradled on couch as soft, as ever soothed
infancy in their proudest palaces."
|
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Protagoras by Plato: And why, I said, do you neither assent nor dissent, Protagoras?
Finish the argument by yourself, he said.
I only want to ask one more question, I said. I want to know whether you
still think that there are men who are most ignorant and yet most
courageous?
You seem to have a great ambition to make me answer, Socrates, and
therefore I will gratify you, and say, that this appears to me to be
impossible consistently with the argument.
My only object, I said, in continuing the discussion, has been the desire
to ascertain the nature and relations of virtue; for if this were clear, I
am very sure that the other controversy which has been carried on at great
|
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from All's Well That Ends Well by William Shakespeare: kernal in this light nut; the soul of this man is his clothes;
trust him not in matter of heavy consequence; I have kept of them
tame, and know their natures.--Farewell, monsieur; I have spoken
better of you than you have or will to deserve at my hand; but we
must do good against evil.
[Exit.]
PAROLLES.
An idle lord, I swear.
BERTRAM.
I think so.
PAROLLES.
|
