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The delightsomeness of the work of art and its self-sufficient freedom, standing in contrast with the drab or difficult realities of nature and personal striving, serve also to make of beauty a consoler and healer.

From The Principles of Aesthetics by Parker, Dewitt H.

Ah, no! she must for ever be resplendent in the master-works which my soul shall engender; in eternal youth, delightsomeness, and beauty.

From The Serapion Brethren, Vol. I. by Hoffmann, Ernst Theodor Wilhelm

However, Victorine came to me in all the glory of her beauty and delightsomeness.

From The Serapion Brethren. Vol. II by Hoffmann, Ernst Theordor Wilhelm

The opposite of loathsomeness is delightsomeness; and the opposite of wretchedness is happiness. 

From Samuel Rutherford and some of his correspondents by Whyte, Alexander

No, friends, you have got to be converted to short ones; you have to repent into childhood, to repent into delight, and delightsomeness.

From The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing by Ruskin, John