"PLEASE IS THIS THE WAY TO THE GRAND PARADE?

For the sake of Him who hath created thee, pray give me an answer; I am come here by chance, and the pleasing of a guest is a requisite duty."

The most pleasing is Ergasto's lament at Androgeo's tomb, beginning: Alma beata e bella,

The most pleasing of Ferrari's paintings are choirs of angels, sorrowing or rejoicing, some of them exquisitely and originally beautiful, all animated with unusual life, and poised upon wings powerful enough to bear themveritable "birds of God."

DEAR MADAM,Hope is more pleasing than fear, but not less fallacious; you know, when you do not try to deceive yourself, that the disease, which at last is to destroy, must be gradually growing worse, and that it is vain to wish for more than, that the descent to death may be slow and easy.