| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Tarzan the Untamed by Edgar Rice Burroughs: ings to the lions.
Once out upon the light sands of the bottom of the gorge
objects became more distinguishable, and then she saw that
there were other men in the party and that two half led and
half carried the stumbling figure of a third, whom she guessed
must be Smith-Oldwick.
For a time the lions made frenzied efforts to reach the two
captives but always the men with them succeeded in beating
them off. The fellows seemed utterly unafraid of the great
beasts leaping and snarling about them, handling them much
the same as one might handle a pack of obstreperous dogs.
Tarzan the Untamed |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Agesilaus by Xenophon: besides a contingent of the allies six thousand strong; with these he
would cross over into Asia and endeavour to effect a peace; or, if the
barbarian preferred war, he would leave him little leisure to invade
Hellas.
[5] B.C. 399; according to Plut. ("Ages." ad fin.) he was forty-three,
and therefore still "not old." See "Hell." III. iv. 1 for the
startling news, B.C. 396.
[6] For the class of Neodamodes, see Arnold's note to Thuc. v. 34
(Jowett, "Thuc." ii. 307); also Thuc. vii. 58; "Hell." I. iii. 15.
The proposal was welcomed with enthusiasm on the part of many. They
could not but admire the eagerness of their king to retaliate upon the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Richard III by William Shakespeare: GLOUCESTER. Sweet Prince, the untainted virtue of your
years
Hath not yet div'd into the world's deceit;
Nor more can you distinguish of a man
Than of his outward show; which, God He knows,
Seldom or never jumpeth with the heart.
Those uncles which you want were dangerous;
Your Grace attended to their sug'red words
But look'd not on the poison of their hearts.
God keep you from them and from such false friends!
PRINCE. God keep me from false friends! but they were
Richard III |
