| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Tour Through Eastern Counties of England by Daniel Defoe: was the highway, or great road from London into Essex, and the same
which goes now over the great bridge between Bow and Stratford.
That the great road lay this way, and that the great causeway
landed again just over the river, where now the Temple Mills stand,
and passed by Sir Thomas Hickes's house at Ruckolls, all this is
not doubted; and that it was one of those famous highways made by
the Romans there is undoubted proof, by the several marks of Roman
work, and by Roman coins and other antiquities found there, some of
which are said to be deposited in the hands of the Rev. Mr. Strype,
vicar of the parish of Low Leyton.
From hence the great road passed up to Leytonstone, a place by some
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The fourth excerpt represents the element of Earth. It speaks of physical influences and the impact of the unseen on the visible world, and is drawn from The Lesson of the Master by Henry James: and the attenuated festoons and rosettes of its ceiling - a
cheerful upholstered avenue into the other century.
Our friend was slightly nervous; that went with his character as a
student of fine prose, went with the artist's general disposition
to vibrate; and there was a particular thrill in the idea that
Henry St. George might be a member of the party. For the young
aspirant he had remained a high literary figure, in spite of the
lower range of production to which he had fallen after his first
three great successes, the comparative absence of quality in his
later work. There had been moments when Paul Overt almost shed
tears for this; but now that he was near him - he had never met him
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