| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Pupil by Henry James: produced for Pemberton an embarrassment; it raised in a shadowy
form a question - this was the first glimpse of it - destined to
play a singular and, as he imagined, owing to the altogether
peculiar conditions, an unprecedented part in his intercourse with
his little companion. Later, when he found himself talking with
the youngster in a way in which few youngsters could ever have been
talked with, he thought of that clumsy moment on the bench at Nice
as the dawn of an understanding that had broadened. What had added
to the clumsiness then was that he thought it his duty to declare
to Morgan that he might abuse him, Pemberton, as much as he liked,
but must never abuse his parents. To this Morgan had the easy
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Kenilworth by Walter Scott: foolish face of wonder and terror, which instantly recalled
Leicester to himself.
"I meant but to try if thou hadst the audacity which befits thine
office," said he hastily. "Come to Kenilworth, and bring the
devil with thee, if thou wilt."
"My wife, sir, hath played the devil ere now, in a Mystery, in
Queen Mary's time; but me shall want a trifle for properties."
"Here is a crown for thee," said the Earl,--"make me rid of thee
--the great bell rings."
Master Robert Laneham stared a moment at the agitation which he
had excited, and then said to himself, as he stooped to pick up
Kenilworth |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Eryxias by Platonic Imitator: and it is a good example of a short spurious work, which may be attributed
to the second or third century before Christ.
ERYXIAS
by
Platonic Imitator (see Appendix II above)
Translated by Benjamin Jowett
INTRODUCTION.
Much cannot be said in praise of the style or conception of the Eryxias.
It is frequently obscure; like the exercise of a student, it is full of
small imitations of Plato:--Phaeax returning from an expedition to Sicily
(compare Socrates in the Charmides from the army at Potidaea), the figure
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