| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Cavalry General by Xenophon: hippodrome, it is his business as commander of the knights to see that
every pageant of the sort is splendidly exhibited.
[1] Cf. Theophr. "Ch." vii. (Jebb ad loc. p. 204, n. 25).
But these, again, are memoranda.[2] To the question how the several
features of the pageant shall receive their due impress of beauty, I
will now address myself.
[2] Read {tauta men alla upomnemata}, or if with Pantazid. {apla},
trans. "these are simply memoranda."
And first to speak of the Processions.[3] These will, I think, be
rendered most acceptable to Heaven and to earth's spectators were the
riders to ride round the Agora and temples, commencing from the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Michael Strogoff by Jules Verne: Nadia saw in the horizon a long light line. It was the
Dinka River. A few lightning flashes were reflected in the
water; summer lightning, without thunder. Nadia led her
companion through the ruined village. The cinders were
quite cold. The last of the Tartars had passed through at
least five or six days before.
Beyond the village, Nadia sank down on a stone bench.
"Shall we make a halt?" asked Michael.
"It is night, Michael," answered Nadia. "Do you not
want to rest a few hours?"
"I would rather have crossed the Dinka," replied
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Princess by Alfred Tennyson: Was longer; and albeit their glorious names
Were fewer, scattered stars, yet since in truth
The highest is the measure of the man,
And not the Kaffir, Hottentot, Malay,
Nor those horn-handed breakers of the glebe,
But Homer, Plato, Verulam; even so
With woman: and in arts of government
Elizabeth and others; arts of war
The peasant Joan and others; arts of grace
Sappho and others vied with any man:
And, last not least, she who had left her place,
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