| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Enemies of Books by William Blades: Pene tu mihi Lesbiam abstulisti."
and then--
"Quid dicam innumeros bene eruditos
Quorum tu monumenta tu labores
Isti pessimo ventre devorasti?
while Petit, who was evidently moved by strong personal feelings against the
"invisum pecus," as he calls him, addresses his little enemy as "Bestia audax"
and "Pestis chartarum."
But, as a portrait commonly precedes a biography, the curious
reader may wish to be told what this "Bestia audax,"
who so greatly ruffles the tempers of our eclectics, is like.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Princess by Alfred Tennyson: Glow like a sunbeam: near his tomb a feast
Shone, silver-set; about it lay the guests,
And there we joined them: then the maiden Aunt
Took this fair day for text, and from it preached
An universal culture for the crowd,
And all things great; but we, unworthier, told
Of college: he had climbed across the spikes,
And he had squeezed himself betwixt the bars,
And he had breathed the Proctor's dogs; and one
Discussed his tutor, rough to common men,
But honeying at the whisper of a lord;
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Pupil by Henry James: that Morgan wouldn't prove a bore. He would prove on the contrary
a source of agitation. This idea held the young man, in spite of a
certain repulsion.
"You pompous little person! We're not extravagant!" Mrs. Moreen
gaily protested, making another unsuccessful attempt to draw the
boy to her side. "You must know what to expect," she went on to
Pemberton.
"The less you expect the better!" her companion interposed. "But
we ARE people of fashion."
"Only so far as YOU make us so!" Mrs. Moreen tenderly mocked.
"Well then, on Friday - don't tell me you're superstitious - and
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