| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Sesame and Lilies by John Ruskin: and whatever advantages you may possess, and however good you may
be, you have not been singled out, by the God who made you, from all
the other girls in the world, to be especially informed respecting
His own nature and character. You have not been born in a luminous
point upon the surface of the globe, where a perfect theology might
be expounded to you from your youth up, and where everything you
were taught would be true, and everything that was enforced upon
you, right. Of all the insolent, all the foolish persuasions that
by any chance could enter and hold your empty little heart, this is
the proudest and foolishest,--that you have been so much the darling
of the Heavens, and favourite of the Fates, as to be born in the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare: apparel, basin, ewer, and other appurtenances; and LORD, dressed
like a servant.]
SLY.
For God's sake! a pot of small ale.
FIRST SERVANT.
Will't please your lordship drink a cup of sack?
SECOND SERVANT.
Will't please your honour taste of these conserves?
THIRD SERVANT.
What raiment will your honour wear to-day?
SLY.
The Taming of the Shrew |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Ivanhoe by Walter Scott: me, the niggardly traitors, whom my father, and I
myself, had enriched, when their best resources
were the flitches of bacon and measures of corn, out
of which they wheedled poor serfs and bondsmen,
in exchange for their prayers---the nest of foul ungrateful
vipers---barley bread and ditch water to,
such a patron as I had been! I will smoke them
out of their nest, though I be excommunicated!''
``But, in the name of Our Lady, noble Athelstane,''
said Cedric, grasping the hand of his friend,
``how didst thou escape this imminent danger---
Ivanhoe |
