Citations:pleasures


 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * For the lusts, pleasures, and profits of this world; in the enjoyment of which I did then promise myself much delight; but now every one of those things also bite me, and gnaw me like a burning worm.
 * They also asked them where they had lodged, what difficulties and dangers, what comforts and pleasures they had met in the way; and they told them.


 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * They consulted their village priest, and the result was that Elizabeth Lavenza became the inmate of my parents' house — my more than sister — the beautiful and adored companion of all my occupations and my pleasures.
 * If the study to which you apply yourself has a tendency to weaken your affections and to destroy your taste for those simple pleasures in which no alloy can possibly mix, then that study is certainly unlawful, that is to say, not befitting the human mind.
 * I tried to conceal this as much as possible, that I might not debar him from the pleasures natural to one who was entering on a new scene of life, undisturbed by any care or bitter recollection.