| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Bride of Lammermoor by Walter Scott: applying for it?"
"Have I heard!!!" said Caleb, who now found how the wind set,
with an accent of exceeding contempt, at the doubt
expressed--"have I heard, quo'she!!!" and as he spoke he changed
his shambling, skulking, dodging pace into a manly and
authoritative step, readjusted his cocked hat, and suffered his
brow to emerge from under it in all the pride of aristocracy,
like the sun from behind a cloud.
"To be sure, he canna but hae heard," said the good woman.
"Ay, to be sure it's impossible but I should," said Caleb; "and
sae I'll be the first to kiss ye, joe, and wish you, cooper,
The Bride of Lammermoor |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Cavalry General by Xenophon: resolution of their souls.
[21] {parelontas}, in reference to S. 18 above, {parelaunoi}, "form
squadron to the front."
[22] "To be this, he must be able as an orator as well as a man of
action." Cf. "Mem." II. ii. 11.
[23] Cf. Tennyson's "The Charge of the Light Brigade":
Their's not to make reply,
Their's not to reason why,
Their's but to do and die.
To turn to another matter, take the case in which you have two armeis
facing one another in battle order, or a pair of fortresses[24]
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates by Howard Pyle: enveloping the old house, the blooming apple trees, the sloping
lawn and the shining river beyond. He implored his sweetheart to
let him tell her uncle and aunt of their acknowledged love and to
ask the old man's consent to it, but she would not permit him to
do so. They were so happy as they were. Who knew but what her
uncle might forbid their fondness? Would he not wait a little
longer? Maybe it would all come right after a while. She was so
fond, so tender, so tearful at the nearness of their parting that
he had not the heart to insist. At the same time it was with a
feeling almost of despair that he realized that he must now be
gone--maybe for the space of two years--without in all that time
Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates |
