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And knowing this, we are content that the act of garnering, of preparing, for such future enjoyment, should lack any steady or deep pleasurableness about itself.

From Laurus Nobilis Chapters on Art and Life by Vernon Lee

It will be found that even in the lighter forms of drama which we accept as typical and satisfactory this social flavor may be detected, giving it body, but not detracting from its pleasurableness.

From How to See a Play by Sir Richard Francis Burton

The psychological treatment of aesthetic data here sketched out cannot stop at an analysis of the aesthetic state or attitude into a number of recoenizable elements each of which contributes its own quantum of pleasurableness.

From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg

The distinguishing characteristics of aesthetic expression observed by us—the pleasurableness of the medium, the enhanced unity—serve intuition as that has been described by us.

From The Principles of Aesthetics by Dewitt H. Parker

We judge of the origin of this love from its delights; for who in any case knows or has known the trace of any love except from its delight and pleasurableness?

From The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love by Emanuel Swedenborg