| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe: your cousins are in, provided they do but apply with diligence
and good judgment to the business of that place when they
come there.'
She then inquired of him what things it was necessary we
should carry over with us, and he, like a very honest as well
as knowing man, told her thus: 'Madam, your cousins in the
first place must procure somebody to buy them as servants,
in conformity to the conditions of their transportation, and
then, in the name of that person, they may go about what they
will; they may either purchase some plantations already begun,
or they may purchase land of the Government of the country,
Moll Flanders |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Bride of Lammermoor by Walter Scott: favour at a stranger's hands."
"Never ask a question about it, Master," said Bucklaw, who, with
great unwillingness, had hitherto reined in his own gallant
steed, not to outride his host and entertainer. "Take the goods
the gods provide you, as the great John Dryden says; or stay--
here, my friend, lend me that horse; I see you have been puzzled
to rein him up this half-hour. I'll take the devil out of him
for you. Now, Master, do you ride mine, which will carry you
like an eagle."
And throwing the rein of his own horse to the Master of
Ravenswood, he sprung upon that which the stranger resigned to
The Bride of Lammermoor |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Heroes by Charles Kingsley: king of the Immortals. For though he was but fifteen, he was
taller by a head than any man in the island; and he was the
most skilful of all in running and wrestling and boxing, and
in throwing the quoit and the javelin, and in rowing with the
oar, and in playing on the harp, and in all which befits a
man. And he was brave and truthful, gentle and courteous,
for good old Dictys had trained him well; and well it was for
Perseus that he had done so. For now Danae and her son fell
into great danger, and Perseus had need of all his wit to
defend his mother and himself.
I said that Dictys' brother was Polydectes, king of the
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