| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Mansion by Henry van Dyke: school,
he had yielded to this impulse and broken away--now toward
extravagance
and dissipation, and then, when the reaction came, toward a
romantic
devotion to work among the poor. He had felt his father's
disapproval
for both of these forms of imprudence; but is was never expressed
in
a harsh or violent way, always with a certain tolerant patience,
such as one might show for the mistakes and vagaries of the very
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Love and Friendship by Jane Austen: that equally unfortunate one FREDERIC DELAMERE. The simile may
be carried still farther, and Elizabeth the torment of Essex may
be compared to the Emmeline of Delamere. It would be endless to
recount the misfortunes of this noble and gallant Earl. It is
sufficient to say that he was beheaded on the 25th of Feb, after
having been Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, after having clapped his
hand on his sword, and after performing many other services to
his Country. Elizabeth did not long survive his loss, and died
so miserable that were it not an injury to the memory of Mary I
should pity her.
JAMES the 1st
Love and Friendship |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley: all alive for any sea-news, must needs go up to them, and take his
place among the sailor-lads who were peeping and whispering under
the elbows of the men; and so came in for the following speech,
delivered in a loud bold voice, with a strong Devonshire accent,
and a fair sprinkling of oaths.
"If you don't believe me, go and see, or stay here and grow all
over blue mould. I tell you, as I am a gentleman, I saw it with
these eyes, and so did Salvation Yeo there, through a window in the
lower room; and we measured the heap, as I am a christened man,
seventy foot long, ten foot broad, and twelve foot high, of silver
bars, and each bar between a thirty and forty pound weight. And
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