| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson: glory struggling from within. The second shows us Ignorance
- alas! poor Arminian! - hailing, in a sad twilight, the
ferryman Vain-Hope; and in the third we behold him, bound
hand and foot, and black already with the hue of his eternal
fate, carried high over the mountain-tops of the world by two
angels of the anger of the Lord. 'Carried to Another Place,'
the artist enigmatically names his plate - a terrible design.
Wherever he touches on the black side of the supernatural his
pencil grows more daring and incisive. He has many true
inventions in the perilous and diabolic; he has many
startling nightmares realised. It is not easy to select the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Four Arthurian Romances by Chretien DeTroyes: shall swear that you will exert yourself in the interests of the
Knight with the Lion until he recover his lady's love as
completely as he ever possessed it." The lady then raised her
right hand and said: "I swear to all that thou hast said, so help
me God and His holy saint, that my heart may never fail to do all
within my power. If I have the strength and ability, I will
restore to him the love and favour which with his lady he once
enjoyed."
(Vv. 6659-6716.) Lunete has now done well her work; there was
nothing which she had desired so much as the object which she had
now attained. They had already got out for her a palfrey with an
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Secrets of the Princesse de Cadignan by Honore de Balzac: of gravity (for he was now thirty-eight), he still preserved a flower
of youth, due to the sober and ascetic life which he had led. Like all
men of sedentary habits, and statesmen, he had acquired a certainly
reasonable embonpoint. When very young, he bore some resemblance to
Bonaparte; and the likeness still continued, as much as a man with
black eyes and thick, dark hair could resemble a sovereign with blue
eyes and scanty, chestnut hair. But whatever there once was of ardent
and noble ambition in the great author's eyes had been somewhat
quenched by successes. The thoughts with which that brow once teemed
had flowered; the lines of the hollow face were filling out. Ease now
spread its golden tints where, in youth, poverty had laid the yellow
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