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If mankind had only one article of food, and only water to drink, though they would have less enjoyment in eating, they would never be tempted to put any more into the stomach than the calls of hunger require.
And this was high enjoyment for Janshah and his father and the lady Shamsah." And Shahrazad perceived the dawn of day and ceased saying her permitted say. When it was the Five Hundred and Twenty-ninth Night,
Pleasure and pain, in youth, are, for the most part, transient impressions, whether they arise from possession or loss of worldly enjoyment, or from a sense of having done well or ill in our career. The excitement, though strong, is not durable; and thus it was with me.
At length he fell into a stupor, and after lingering for a day or two in that state, he expired, without having fully recovered his consciousness for a moment. The handsome, reckless, dashing son of the rich merchant lay on his bier; a career of selfish enjoyment and guilty folly was suddenly closed by the grave.
EASTMAN, The Enjoyment of Poetry, p. 93. "Rhythm of pulse is the regular alternation of units made up of beat and pause; rhythm in verse is a measured or standardized arrangement of sound relations. The difference between rhythm of pulse and rhythm in verse is that the one is known through touch, the other through hearing; as rhythm, they are essentially the same kind of thing.
If there be only anger in a man's breast it may be subdued by tenderness, by submission, and affection; but when to anger is added a feeling of indignation at having been shamefully deceived, it is impossible to pass suddenly to thoughts of love and voluptuous enjoyment. With me mere anger has never been of long duration, but when I am indignant the only cure is forgetfulness.
And we can't, for the life of us, help feeling that it's hard on those who have put forth all their strength for defeat." "But it isn't so bad as if it were our boat that was behind," he said sensibly. "Oh, no; of course not. But I maintain that it injures the fine fleur of enjoyment to remember that there are two participants in a contest." "I suppose it is useless to expect you to be logical "
It is both a literary enjoyment and a means of historical and political instruction to read after the lapse of centuries their reports and despatches.
Other lovers talk rather of the past; an uncertainty pervades their hereafter; they feel they recoil from, it; they are sensible that their plans are not one and indivisible. But married people are always laying out the "to come;" always talking over their plans: this often takes something away from the tenderness of affection, but how much it adds to its enjoyment!
Bartley gave a chuckle of enjoyment as he sat down at his desk; Witherby rose and stalked away. He returned in half an hour and said, with an air of frank concession, touched with personal grief: "Mr. Hubbard, I can see how, from your point of view, you were perfectly justifiable in selling your article to the Chronicle-Abstract.
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