| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Essays of Francis Bacon by Francis Bacon: the songs be loud and cheerful, and not chirpings
or pulings. Let the music likewise be sharp and
loud, and well placed. The colors that show best by
candle-light are white, carnation, and a kind of
sea-water-green; and oes, or spangs, as they are of
no great cost, so they are of most glory. As for rich
embroidery, it is lost and not discerned. Let the
suits of the masquers be graceful, and such as be-
come the person, when the vizors are off; not after
examples of known attires; Turke, soldiers, mari-
ners', and the like. Let anti-masques not be long;
Essays of Francis Bacon |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas: said, D'Artagnan paid no attention to this persistence of
poor Kitty.
32 A PROCURATOR'S DINNER
However brilliant had been the part played by Porthos in the
duel, it had not made him forget the dinner of the
procurator's wife.
On the morrow he received the last touches of Mousqueton's
brush for an hour, and took his way toward the Rue aux Ours
with the steps of a man who was doubly in favor with
fortune.
His heart beat, but not like D'Artagnan's with a young and
The Three Musketeers |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Koran: way at what befel them in God's way Nor were they weak, nor did they
demean themselves:- God loves the patient. And their word was only
to say, 'Lord, forgive us our sins and our extravagance in our
affairs; and make firm our footing, and help us against the
misbelieving folk!' and God gave them the reward of this world, and
good reward for the future too, for God doth love the kind.
O ye who believe! if ye obey those who misbelieve, they will turn
you back upon your heels, and ye will retreat the losers. Nay, God
is your Lord, He is the best of helpers. We will throw dread into
the hearts of those who misbelieve, for that they associate that
with God which He has sent down no power for; but their resort is
The Koran |
