So, too, Edward Fitzgerald used to tear out of his books all that in his judgment fell below their authors' highest standard, retaining for his own delectation only the quintessential remnants. and IV. appeared in 1868, V. in 1875, VI. in 1880, VII. and VIII. in 1887; while a Cabinet Edition of the whole in nine volumes was issued continuously from 1870 to 1887. Our attempt to appreciate the book shall be reserved for another chapter.英文原著 · 《Biographical Study of A. W. Kinglake》
After ten o'clock, when the braves were safely stowed for the night, the three men came in and limply dropped into comfortable chairs in my library, with the air of having made martyrs of themselves in the great cause of charity. But they did not deceive me. They originated all that tomfoolery for their own individual delectation.英文原著 · 《Dear Enemy》
['"Should ye who enter here profess in jubilation Our gospel of elation, then suffer dolts to curse! Here refuge shall ye find, and sure circumvallation Against the protestation of those whose delectation Brings false abomination to blight the universe.'"]英文原著 · 《Droll Stories-2》
III WHAT THE SUCCUBUS DID TO SUCK OUT THE SOUL OF THE OLD JUDGE, AND WHAT CAME OF THE DIABOLICAL DELECTATION.英文原著 · 《Droll Stories-2》
For the Dinkey-Bird's bravuras And staccatos are so sweet - His roulades, appoggiaturas, And robustos so complete, That the youth of every nation - Be they near or far away - Have especial delectation In that gladsome roundelay.英文原著 · 《Love-Songs of Childhood》
And as, by feeling greater delectation,
A man in doing good from day to day
Becomes aware his virtue is increasing,英文原著 · 《Paradiso》