| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde: always refusing people. I think it is most ill-natured of her.
JACK. Oh, Gwendolen is as right as a trivet. As far as she is
concerned, we are engaged. Her mother is perfectly unbearable.
Never met such a Gorgon . . . I don't really know what a Gorgon is
like, but I am quite sure that Lady Bracknell is one. In any case,
she is a monster, without being a myth, which is rather unfair . .
. I beg your pardon, Algy, I suppose I shouldn't talk about your
own aunt in that way before you.
ALGERNON. My dear boy, I love hearing my relations abused. It is
the only thing that makes me put up with them at all. Relations
are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven't got the remotest
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Betty Zane by Zane Grey: their feet as they stamped on the ground. He heard the ring of the tomahawks
as they were struck into hard wood. The Indians were dancing the war-dance
round the war-post. This continued with some little intermission all the four
days that Isaac lay in the lodge rapidly recovering his strength. The fifth
day a man came into the lodge. He was tall and powerful, his fair fell over
his shoulders and he wore the scanty buckskin dress of the Indian. But Isaac
knew at once he was a white man, perhaps one of the many French traders who
passed through the Indian village.
"Your name is Zane," said the man in English, looking sharply at Isaac.
"That is my name. Who are you?" asked Isaac in great surprise.
"I am Girty. I've never seen you, but I knew Col. Zane and Jonathan well. I've
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift: reasonably expected. And as to the young labourers, they are now
in almost as hopeful a condition. They cannot get work, and
consequently pine away from want of nourishment, to a degree,
that if at any time they are accidentally hired to common labour,
they have not strength to perform it, and thus the country and
themselves are happily delivered from the evils to come.
I have too long digressed, and therefore shall return to my
subject. I think the advantages by the proposal which I have made
are obvious and many, as well as of the highest importance.
For first, as I have already observed, it would greatly lessen
the number of Papists, with whom we are yearly over-run, being
A Modest Proposal |
