Two Burlesques of Lord Chesterfield's Letters.: The Graces (1774), The Fine Gentleman's Etiquette (1776)
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Two Burlesques of Lord Chesterfield's Letters.: The Graces (1774), The Fine Gentleman's Etiquette (1776)
Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of, 1694-1773. Letters to his son
"In all that you do, and whatever you say,
"I hope, to the Graces, you sacrifice pay,
"Assiduously courted, their favour you'll gain,"
So shall not, my labour of love, "be in vain."
FOOTNOTES:
[1] Mr. _Harte_, Mr. _Stanhope_'s tutor.
[2] Slovenly air.
[3] Those little nothings that give the ton.
[4] High Court, or Jubilee Days.
[5] A famous dancing master at that time in Paris.
[6] Mr. Stanhope's gentleman.
[7] No distortion of countenance, or aukward behaviour; no absence of
mind; but to keep the Graces always in remembrance.
[8] Mr. Stanhope dined one day with some company at his father's, when
the following circumstance happen'd, which so much enrag'd him, that he
called for his servant to take him from table and wash him clean.
[9] A female polisher of manners.
[10] Have your stiffness remov'd.
[11] You should dress like a man of the great world.
[12] Always in the fashion, and your cloaths well put on.
[13] What success with the Graces.
[14] The great art of pleasing.
[15] The amiable, the every thing.
FINIS.
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