| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Man against the Sky by Edwin Arlington Robinson: in the technique of the drama.
Notes on the etext:
John Gorham:
Catches him and let's him go and eats him up for fun." --
changed to:
Catches him and lets him go and eats him up for fun." --
Ben Jonson Entertains a Man from Stratford:
Whatever there be, they'll be no more of that;
not changed, but noted as possibly incorrect -- should it be?:
Whatever there be, there'll be no more of that;
Then are as yet a picture in our vision.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Essays of Francis Bacon by Francis Bacon: Surely in counsels concerning religion, that coun-
sel of the apostle would be prefixed, Ira hominis
non implet justitiam Dei. And it was a notable
observation of a wise father, and no less ingenu-
ously confessed; that those which held and per-
suaded pressure of consciences, were commonly
interested therein., themselves, for their own ends.
Of Revenge
REVENGE is a kind of wild justice; which the
more man' s nature runs to, the more ought
law to weed it out. For as for the first wrong, it
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Black Arrow by Robert Louis Stevenson: Duckworth is a man out of ten thousand; he holdeth you right near
his heart, both for your own and for your father's sake; and
knowing you guiltless of this fact, he will stir earth and heaven
to bear you clear."
"It may not be," said Dick. "What can he do? He hath but a
handful. Alack, if it were but to-morrow - could I but keep a
certain tryst an hour before noon to-morrow - all were, I think,
otherwise. But now there is no help."
"Well," concluded Lawless, "an ye will stand to it for my
innocence, I will stand to it for yours, and that stoutly. It
shall naught avail us; but an I be to hang, it shall not be for
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