| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift: every point. I would exactly set down the several changes in
customs, language, fashions of dress, diet, and diversions. By
all which acquirements, I should be a living treasure of
knowledge and wisdom, and certainly become the oracle of the
nation.
"I would never marry after threescore, but live in a hospitable
manner, yet still on the saving side. I would entertain myself
in forming and directing the minds of hopeful young men, by
convincing them, from my own remembrance, experience, and
observation, fortified by numerous examples, of the usefulness of
virtue in public and private life. But my choice and constant
Gulliver's Travels |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Lesson of the Master by Henry James: in its leading him inwardly and repeatedly to breathe "I had no
idea there was any one like this - I had no idea there was any one
like this!" Her freedom amazed him and charmed him - it seemed so
to simplify the practical question. She was on the footing of an
independent personage - a motherless girl who had passed out of her
teens and had a position and responsibilities, who wasn't held down
to the limitations of a little miss. She came and went with no
dragged duenna, she received people alone, and, though she was
totally without hardness, the question of protection or patronage
had no relevancy in regard to her. She gave such an impression of
the clear and the noble combined with the easy and the natural that
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Ivanhoe by Walter Scott: alienis_, and their treasures to others---as in the
present case to these honest gentlemen.''
Isaac groaned deeply, and began to wring his
hands, and to relapse into his state of desolation
and despair. But the leader of the yeomen led him
aside.
``Advise thee well, Isaac,'' said Locksley, ``what
thou wilt do in this matter; my counsel to thee is
to make a friend of this churchman. He is vain,
Isaac, and he is covetous; at least he needs money
to supply his profusion. Thou canst easily gratify
Ivanhoe |
