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But with all this evidence of study the "Assembly of Fowls" is chiefly interesting as showing how Chaucer had now begun to select as well as to assimilate his loans; how, while he was still moving along well-known tracks, his eyes were joyously glancing to the right and the left; and how the source of most of his imagery at all events he already found in the merry England around him, even as he had chosen for his subject one of real national interest.
Let each one select for himself from the whole list fifteen, whom he would call professional artists, to be the ticket which he will give in at the next meeting. To these shall be delegated the power to regulate its entire concerns, choose its members, select its students, etc.
You may tire of looking at a single painting, but you must tire of looking at many. That is why the eyelids grow so heavy in the great galleries, and the seats are as closely packed as an omnibus on Sunday. Happy he who has resolution enough to select from the great multitude a small number of pictures, to which he can return every day.
This club was a very select, and, by repute, dry institution, consisting partly of scientific boys and partly of masters.
Among the descriptions of the inspired state found in various authors, I select only three, which are brief and have each a special character. I do not even know that which I must write. If I write, it is because the Spirit moves me and communicates to me a great, wonderful knowledge.
Midshipmen are very condescending they followed Don Rebiera, and condescended to put on clean shirts belonging to Don Philip and Don Martin; also to put on their trousers to select their best waistcoats and coats in short, they condescended to have a regular fit-out and it so happened that the fit-out was not far from a regular fit.
But his genius is in harmony with itself; and just as in the products of his art we find resources of sweetness within their exceeding strength, so in his own story also, bitter as the ordinary sense of it may be, there are select pages shut in among the rest pages one might easily turn over too lightly, but which yet sweeten the whole volume.
So Shibli Bagarag exclaimed, 'O exalted one, bestower of the bride! surely I debated with myself but for appropriate terms; and I delayed to select the metre of the verse fitting my thoughts of her, and my wondrous good fortune, and the honour done me. Then the Vizier, 'Let us hear: we listen.
A commission of sixteen ladies was appointed last year, by the Connecticut Congregational Club, to select and print a catalogue of books for Sunday Schools. During the year it has examined one hundred and eighty-four, almost all reprints of well-known books, and has selected one hundred.
Nevertheless, as it is counted a high privilege to be numbered among these select subscribers, changes are rare among them; besides, the members are not, as a rule, men in their first youth. They have seen, within those walls, the blooming and the renewal of several generations of pretty women; and the number of singers and dancers to whom they have paid court in the coulisses is still greater.
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