| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Art of Writing by Robert Louis Stevenson: one of them be rotten, kept dancing with inimitable grace.
Up to this moment I have had my eye mainly upon prose; for
though in verse also the implication of the logical texture
is a crowning beauty, yet in verse it may be dispensed with.
You would think that here was a death-blow to all I have been
saying; and far from that, it is but a new illustration of
the principle involved. For if the versifier is not bound to
weave a pattern of his own, it is because another pattern has
been formally imposed upon him by the laws of verse. For
that is the essence of a prosody. Verse may be rhythmical;
it may be merely alliterative; it may, like the French,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Koran: with kindness. It is not lawful for you to take from them anything
of what you have given them, unless both fear that they cannot keep
within God's bounds. So if ye fear that ye cannot keep within God's
bounds there is no crime in you both about what she ransoms herself
with. These are God's bounds, do not transgress them; and whoso
transgresses God's bounds, they it is who are unjust.
But if he divorce her (a third time) she shall not be lawful to
him after that, until she marry another husband; but, if he divorce
her too, it is no crime in them both to come together again, if they
think that they can keep within God's bounds. These are God's bounds
which He explains to a people who know.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Damaged Goods by Upton Sinclair: think of nothing to say to it.
"What shall I do?" he asked.
The other answered, "Go to your father-in-law and tell him
frankly the truth."
"But," cried the young man, wildly, "there will be no question
then of three or four years' delay. He will refuse his consent
altogether."
"If that is the case," said the doctor, "don't tell him anything."
"But I have to give him a reason, or I don't know what he will
do. He is the sort of man to give himself to the worst violence,
and again my fiancee would be lost to me. Listen, doctor. From
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