| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare: BIONDELLO.
Help, help, help! here's a madman will murder me.
[Exit.]
PEDANT.
Help, son! help, Signior Baptista!
[Exit from the window.]
PETRUCHIO.
Prithee, Kate, let's stand aside and see the end of this
controversy.
[They retire.]
The Taming of the Shrew |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Pagan and Christian Creeds by Edward Carpenter: inferieures de la societe et c'est l'a un fait considerable; le
mithracisme est reste longtemps la religion des humbles."
Mysteres de Mithra, p. 68.
[2] See Glover's Conflict of Religions in the early Roman Empire,
ch. viii.
[3] See Toutain, Cultes paiens, vol. ii, conclusion.
XIV. THE MEANING OF IT ALL
The general drift and meaning of the present book must now, I
think, from many hints scattered in the course of it, be growing
clear. But it will be well perhaps in this chapter,
at the risk of some repetition, to bring the whole argument
Pagan and Christian Creeds |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Unseen World and Other Essays by John Fiske: exchange for our English one. The literary epicure may keenly
relish such epithets as dolent; but the common English reader,
who loves plain fare, can hardly fail to be startled by it. To
him it savours of the grotesque; and if there is any one thing
especially to be avoided in the interpretation of Dante, it is
grotesqueness.
[41] A consummate Italian scholar, the delicacy of whose taste is
questioned by no one, and whose knowledge of Dante's diction is
probably not inferior to Mr. Longfellow's, has told me that he
regards the expression as a noble and effective one, full of
dignity and solemnity.
The Unseen World and Other Essays |
