| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Spirit of the Border by Zane Grey: this go on?"
"I'm afeerd so.'
Evidently the captain heard the conversation, for he appeared at the cabin
door, smoking a long pipe.
"Captain Williamson, I have come to entreat you to save the Christians from
this impending massacre."
"I can't do nuthin'," answered Williamson, removing his pipe to puff forth a
great cloud of smoke.
"You have eighty men here!"
"If we interfered Pipe would eat us alive in three minutes. You preacher
fellows don't understand this thing. You've got Pipe and Girty to deal with.
The Spirit of the Border |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Hidden Masterpiece by Honore de Balzac: artificial means, and give to the form the aspect and roundness of
Nature itself. Come nearer, and you will see the work more distinctly;
if too far off it disappears. See! there, at that point, it is, I
think, most remarkable." And with the end of his brush he pointed to a
spot of clear light color.
Porbus struck the old man on the shoulder, turning to Poussin as he
did so, and said, "Do you know that he is one of our greatest
painters?"
"He is a poet even more than he is a painter," answered Poussin
gravely.
"There," returned Porbus, touching the canvas, "is the ultimate end of
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Republic by Plato: but for the passionate or spirited element to take part with the desires
when reason decides that she should not be opposed, is a sort of thing
which I believe that you never observed occurring in yourself, nor, as I
should imagine, in any one else?
Certainly not.
Suppose that a man thinks he has done a wrong to another, the nobler he is
the less able is he to feel indignant at any suffering, such as hunger, or
cold, or any other pain which the injured person may inflict upon him--
these he deems to be just, and, as I say, his anger refuses to be excited
by them.
True, he said.
The Republic |
