| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from King Lear by William Shakespeare: On her kind nursery.- Hence and avoid my sight!-
So be my grave my peace as here I give
Her father's heart from her! Call France! Who stirs?
Call Burgundy! Cornwall and Albany,
With my two daughters' dowers digest this third;
Let pride, which she calls plainness, marry her.
I do invest you jointly in my power,
Preeminence, and all the large effects
That troop with majesty. Ourself, by monthly course,
With reservation of an hundred knights,
By you to be sustain'd, shall our abode
King Lear |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu by Sax Rohmer: as the speaker bent to pass this strange lifeline to Smith;
and I think it was my wonder at knowing her for the girl whom
that day I had surprised in Cadby's rooms which saved my life.
For I not only kept afloat, but kept my gaze upturned to that beautiful,
flushed face, and my eyes fixed upon hers--which were wild with fear
. . .for me!
Smith, by some contortion, got the false queue into my grasp,
and I, with the strength of desperation, by that means seized
hold upon the lowest rung. With my friend's arm round me I
realized that exhaustion was even nearer than I had supposed.
My last distinct memory is of the bursting of the floor above
The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Beauty and The Beast by Bayard Taylor: and the two preserved the memory of the family long after the
neighborhood had ceased to speak of it. Joel never married; he
still lives in the house where the great sorrow of his life befell.
His head is gray, and his face deeply wrinkled; but when he lifts
the shy lids of his soft brown eyes, I fancy I can see in their
tremulous depths the lingering memory of his love for Alice
Dunleigh.
JACOB FLINT'S JOURNEY.
If there ever was a man crushed out of all courage, all self-
reliance, all comfort in life, it was Jacob Flint. Why this should
have been, neither he nor any one else could have explained; but so
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