Literary notes about enjoyment (AI summary)
In literature, the word "enjoyment" is employed with considerable nuance, often embodying both tangible and abstract forms of pleasure. At one moment it conveys simple sensory satisfaction—the hearty delight in a meal ([1]) or the serene pleasure of nature ([2])—while at another it hints at more complex emotional or philosophical states, suggesting how fleeting or accidental such delight can be ([3], [4]). Authors also use the term to cast a critical light on social or personal circumstances, as when it subtly contrasts the untroubled indulgence of wealth and leisure with the hardships of everyday life ([5], [6]). Moreover, "enjoyment" frequently signals an interplay between physical exuberance and contemplative introspection, revealing its versatility as a literary device to encapsulate the full spectrum of human experience ([7], [8]).
- We sat down to the enjoyment of a delicate and abundant meal.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova - Safer and sweeter do I deem the enjoyment of the woods.
— from The Danish History, Books I-IX by Grammaticus Saxo - “It is of such a kind that enjoyment would only increase it, and yet enjoyment seems to me a mere accident.”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova - But melancholy is the friend of pleasure; tears and pity attend our sweetest enjoyment, and great joys call for tears rather than laughter.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Only the fellow in the bunk smokes away, indifferent to all else but his pipe and his own enjoyment.
— from How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York by Jacob A. Riis - The city of Prusa was assigned for the exile or retirement of the abdicated monarch, who lived six years in the enjoyment of ease and affluence.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon - Plato understood this well enough, and only excepted sweet odours, and intellectual enjoyment.
— from The Basis of Morality by Arthur Schopenhauer - All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
— from Burke's Speech on Conciliation with America by Edmund Burke
