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letters to his son, 1752-第22部分

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rely of various little things。  A graceful motion; a significant look; a trifling attention; an obliging word dropped 'a propos'; air; dress; and a thousand other undefinable things; all severally little ones; joined together; make that happy and inestimable composition; THE ART OF PLEASING。  I have in my life seen many a very handsome woman who has not pleased me; and many very sensible men who have disgusted me。  Why? only for want of those thousand little means to please; which those women; conscious of their beauty; and those men of their sense; have been grossly enough mistaken to neglect。  I never was so much in love in my life; as I was with a woman who was very far from being handsome; but then she was made up of graces; and had all the arts of pleasing。  The following verses; which I have read in some congratulatory poem prefixed to some work; I have forgot which; express what I mean in favor of what pleases preferably to what is generally called mare solid and instructive:

               〃I would an author like a mistress try;                Not by a nose; a lip; a cheek; or eye;                But by some nameless power to give me joy。〃

Lady Chesterfield bids me make you many compliments; she showed me your letter of recommendation of La Vestres; with which I was very well pleased: there is a pretty turn in it; I wish you would always speak as genteelly。  I saw another letter from a lady at Paris; in which there was a high panegyrical paragraph concerning you。  I wish it were every word of it literally true; but; as it comes from a very little; pretty; white hand; which is suspected; and I hope justly; of great partiality to you: 'il en faut rabattre quelque chose; et meme en le faisant it y aura toujours d'assez beaux restes'。  Adieu。










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