| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Pellucidar by Edgar Rice Burroughs: nothing of her. I called aloud, but receiving no reply,
set out at a brisk trot to where I had left her. I had
no difficulty in finding the self-same bush behind which
we had hidden, but Dian was not there. Again and
again I called, to be rewarded only by silence. Where
could she be? What could have become of her in
the brief interval since I had seen her standing just
behind me?
CHAPTER XII
KIDNAPED!
I searched about the spot carefully. At last I was re-
Pellucidar |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe: starving. Why, sir, I've been so hungry that I have been glad to
take the bones they threw to their dogs; and yet, when I was a
little fellow, and laid awake whole nights and cried, it wasn't
the hunger, it wasn't the whipping, I cried for. No, sir, it was
for _my mother_ and _my sisters_,--it was because I hadn't a friend
to love me on earth. I never knew what peace or comfort was. I never
had a kind word spoken to me till I came to work in your factory.
Mr. Wilson, you treated me well; you encouraged me to do well,
and to learn to read and write, and to try to make something of
myself; and God knows how grateful I am for it. Then, sir,
I found my wife; you've seen her,--you know how beautiful she is.
Uncle Tom's Cabin |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Sesame and Lilies by John Ruskin: Let us think over this passage, and examine its words.
First, is it not singular to find Milton assigning to St. Peter, not
only his full episcopal function, but the very types of it which
Protestants usually refuse most passionately? His "mitred" locks!
Milton was no Bishop-lover; how comes St. Peter to be "mitred"?
"Two massy keys he bore." Is this, then, the power of the keys
claimed by the Bishops of Rome? and is it acknowledged here by
Milton only in a poetical licence, for the sake of its
picturesqueness, that he may get the gleam of the golden keys to
help his effect?
Do not think it. Great men do not play stage tricks with the
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