| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Reign of King Edward the Third by William Shakespeare: Thou wilt return my prisoner back again;
And that shall be sufficient warrant for me.
VILLIERS.
To that condition I agree, my Lord,
And will unfainedly perform the same.
[Exit.]
SALISBURY.
Farewell, Villiers.--
Thus once i mean to try a French man's faith.
[Exit.]
ACT IV. SCENE II. Picardy. The English Camp before
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Mansion by Henry van Dyke: visiting
in dreams? He sat for some time, motionless, not lost, but
finding himself
in thought. Then he took a narrow book from the table drawer,
wrote a check, and tore it out.
He went slowly up the stairs, knocked very softly at his son's
door,
and, hearing no answer, entered without noise. Harold was
asleep,
his bare arm thrown above his head, and his eager face relaxed in
peace.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Divine Comedy (translated by H.F. Cary) by Dante Alighieri: Tortaque remigio spumis incanduit unda,
Emersere feri candenti e gurgite vultus
Aequoreae monstrum Nereides admirantes.
Catullus, De Nupt. Pel. et Thet. 15.
v. 109. Three orbs of triple hue, clipt in one bound.] The
Trinity.
v. 118. That circling.] The second of the circles, "Light of
Light," in which he dimly beheld the mystery of the incarnation.
End Paradise.
PREFACE
In the years 1805 and 1806, I published the first part of the
The Divine Comedy (translated by H.F. Cary) |
