| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Ten Years Later by Alexandre Dumas: the cabinet, and found De Bragelonne, who was awaiting him
anxiously.
"Well, monsieur?" said the young man.
"The king, Raoul, is well intentioned towards us both; not,
perhaps, in the sense you suppose, but he is kind, and
generously disposed to our house."
"You have bad news to communicate to me, monsieur," said the
young man, turning very pale.
"The king himself will inform you tomorrow morning that it
is not bad news."
"The king has not signed, however?"
Ten Years Later |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Divine Comedy (translated by H.F. Cary) by Dante Alighieri: Milton, P. L. b. v. 601.
v. 119. Dionysius.] The Areopagite, in his book De Caelesti
Hierarchia.
v. 124. Gregory.] Gregory the Great. "Novem vero angelorum
ordines diximus, quia videlicet esse, testante sacro eloquio,
scimus: Angelos, archangelos, virtutes, potestates, principatus,
dominationae, thronos, cherubin atque seraphin." Divi Gregorii,
Hom. xxxiv. f. 125. ed. Par. 1518. fol.
v. 126. He had learnt.] Dionysius, he says, had learnt from St.
Paul. It is almost unnecessary to add, that the book, above
referred to, which goes under his name, was the production of a
The Divine Comedy (translated by H.F. Cary) |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne: -- that the great-grandchildren of the present race may
sometimes think kindly of the scribbler of bygone days, when the
antiquary of days to come, among the sites memorable in the
town's history, shall point out the locality of THE TOWN PUMP.
THE SCARLET LETTER
The Scarlet Letter |
