Neither metrical nor imaginative pleasurableness, nor descriptive charm, nor lyric poignancy, nor psychological analysis or intention entered, therefore, into Alfieri's conception of a desirable tragedy, any more than any of these things fell within the range of his special talents; for, we must always bear in mind that with this man, whose feelings and desires were in such constant action and reaction, with this man whose will imposed his intellectual notions on his feelings, and his emotional tendencies on his thoughts, the thing which he enjoys is always as the concave to the convex of the thing which he produces.
"The Countess of Albany"
Violet Paget (AKA Vernon Lee)
But the absolute and relative extension and the space-form of the components have also a great influence on the pleasurableness of combinations.
"The Psychology of Beauty"
Ethel D. Puffer
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?
"The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love"
Emanuel Swedenborg