| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Memorabilia by Xenophon: great gain if we may but grow in friendship with one another.
[7] Add "and a sign of modesty," {sophrona nomizomen}.
[8] {sophistas}. See Grote, "H. G." viii. 482 foll.; "Hunting," xi.
foll.
[9] Cf. Plat. "Lys." 211 E.
[10] Cf. "Symp." iv. 27.
As I listened to this talk I could not but reflect that he, the
master, was a person to be envied, and that we, his hearers, were
being led by him to beauty and nobility of soul.
Again on some occasion the same Antiphon asked Socrates how he
expected to make politicians of others when, even if he had the
The Memorabilia |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Forged Coupon by Leo Tolstoy: vich, with genuine annoyance.
"Well; and what about the love affair?
"My love? It decreased from that day.
When, as often happened, she looked dreamy and
meditative, I instantly recollected the colonel on
the parade ground, and I felt so awkward and
uncomfortable that I began to see her less fre-
quently. So my love came to naught. Yes; such
chances arise, and they alter and direct a man's
whole life," he said in summing up. "And you
say . . ."
The Forged Coupon |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Pierre Grassou by Honore de Balzac: the three or four rooms occupied by Grassou of Fougeres was his
studio, looking over to Montmartre. This studio was painted in brick-
color, for a background; the floor was tinted brown and well frotted;
each chair was furnished with a bit of carpet bound round the edges;
the sofa, simple enough, was clean as that in the bedroom of some
worthy bourgeoise. All these things denoted the tidy ways of a small
mind and the thrift of a poor man. A bureau was there, in which to put
away the studio implements, a table for breakfast, a sideboard, a
secretary; in short, all the articles necessary to a painter, neatly
arranged and very clean. The stove participated in this Dutch
cleanliness, which was all the more visible because the pure and
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