| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Paradise Lost by John Milton: Hath emptied Heaven, shall fail to re-ascend,
Self-raised, and repossess their native seat?
For me, be witness all the host of Heaven,
If counsels different, or danger shunned
By me, have lost our hopes. But he who reigns
Monarch in Heaven till then as one secure
Sat on his throne, upheld by old repute,
Consent or custom, and his regal state
Put forth at full, but still his strength concealed--
Which tempted our attempt, and wrought our fall.
Henceforth his might we know, and know our own,
Paradise Lost |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Men of Iron by Howard Pyle: equipment.
The practice at the pels which Myles was bidden to attend
comprised the chief exercise of the day with the esquires of
young cadet soldiers of that time, and in it they learned not
only all the strokes, cuts, and thrusts of sword-play then in
vogue, but also toughness, endurance, and elastic quickness. The
pels themselves consisted of upright posts of ash or oak, about
five feet six inches in height, and in girth somewhat thicker
than a man's thigh. They were firmly planted in the ground, and
upon them the strokes of the broadsword were directed.
At Devlen the pels stood just back of the open and covered
Men of Iron |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Maid Marian by Thomas Love Peacock: (for they have an old instinct of self-preservation): but I
rejoiced thereat, that I might discuss to them poetical justice:
and therefore have I cracked thy sconce: for which, let this
be thy medicine."
"But wherefore," said Marian, "do we find you here, when we left
you joint lord warden of Sherwood?"
"I do but retire to my devotions," replied the friar.
"This is my hermitage, in which I first took refuge when I
escaped from my beloved brethren of Rubygill; and to which I
still retreat at times from the vanities of the world,
which else might cling to me too closely, since I have been
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