| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson: ecstatically lifted - yearn with passion after that immortal
city. Turn the page, and we behold them walking by the very
shores of death; Heaven, from this nigher view, has risen
half-way to the zenith, and sheds a wider glory; and the two
pilgrims, dark against that brightness, walk and sing out of
the fulness of their hearts. No cut more thoroughly
illustrates at once the merit and the weakness of the artist.
Each pilgrim sings with a book in his grasp - a family Bible
at the least for bigness; tomes so recklessly enormous that
our second, impulse is to laughter. And yet that is not the
first thought, nor perhaps the last. Something in the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Glinda of Oz by L. Frank Baum: before," she said to Dorothy.
"In that case, they must have built the web behind
us, after we walked into the trap," exclaimed the
little girl.
"True," agreed Ozma, "an enemy has tried to imprison
us."
"And they did it, too," said Dorothy. "I wonder who
it was."
"It's a spider-web, I'm quite sure," returned Ozma,
"but it must be the work of enormous spiders."
"Quite right!" cried a voice behind them. Turning
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Tapestried Chamber by Walter Scott: "The well-contested ground,
The warlike Border-land,"
to render the habits of the tribes who inhabited it before the
union of England and Scotland familiar to most of your readers.
The rougher and sterner features of their character were softened
by their attachment to the fine arts, from which has arisen the
saying that on the frontiers every dale had its battle, and every
river its song. A rude species of chivalry was in constant use,
and single combats were practised as the amusement of the few
intervals of truce which suspended the exercise of war. The
inveteracy of this custom may be inferred from the following
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