Passage 1: from the time machine by h. g. wells (1898)
it was at ten o'clock to-day that the first of all time machines began its career. i gave it a last tap, tried all
the screws again, put one more drop of oil on the quartz rod, and sat myself in the saddle. . i took the
starting lever in one hand and the stopping one in the other, pressed the first, and almost immediately the
second. i seemed to reel; i felt a nightmare sensation of falling; and, looking round, i saw the laboratory
exactly as before. had anything happened? for a moment i suspected that my intellect had tricked me.
then i noted the clock. a moment before, as it seemed, it had stood at a minute or so past ten; now it was
nearly half-past three!
the purpose of a time machine is
to tell time
to travel through time
to increase the number of hours in a day
to give the writer something to do

everyman: morality play

which phrase in this excerpt from the play everyman refers to god's judgment of people's souls after their death?

messenger: . .

ye think sin in the beginning full sweet,

which in( the end) causeth thy soul to weep,

when the body lieth in clay.

here shall you see how fellowship and jollity,

both strength, pleasure, and beauty,

will fade from thee as flower in may.

for ye shall hear, how our heavenly king

calleth everyman to a (general reckoning):

give audience, and hear what he doth say.

god: i perceive here in my majesty,

how that all the creatures be to me unkind,

living without dread in worldly prosperity:

of (ghostly sight) the people be so blind,

drowned in sin, they know me not for their god;

in worldly riches is all their mind,

they fear not( my righteousness), the sharp rod;

(my law that i shewed), when i for them die

hopefully this !