* Joseph Addison: On the Pleasures of the Imagination ( Spectator essays )

During a visit to Morpeth in 1738, Akenside had the idea for his didactic poem, The Pleasures of the Imagination, which was well received, and was subsequently translated into more than one foreign language.

Accordingly he attacked the author of the Pleasures of the Imagination — which was published anonymously — in a scathing preface to his Remarks on Several Occasional Reflections, in answer to Dr Middleton ... ( 1744 ).

This included the revised version of the Pleasures of Imagination, on which the author was engaged at his death.

** The Pleasures of the Imagination

The Pleasures of the Imagination is also the term used to describe The Spectator Papers Numbered 411 through 418.

The development of the concept of the sublime as an aesthetic quality in nature distinct from beauty was first brought into prominence in the 18th century in the writings of Anthony Ashley-Cooper, third earl of Shaftesbury, and John Dennis, in expressing an appreciation of the fearful and irregular forms of external nature, and Joseph Addison's synthesis of concepts of the sublime in his The Spectator, and later the Pleasures of the Imagination.

His work Pleasures of the Imagination, as well as Mark Akenside's Pleasures of the Imagination ( 1744 ), and Edward Young's poem Night Thoughts ( 1745 ), are generally considered the starting points for Burke's analysis.

Diabelli's composition Pleasures of Youth: Six Sonatinas is a collection of six sonatinas depicting a struggle between unknown opposing forces.

Isabel Cristina Pinedo, author of Recreational Terror: Women and the Pleasures of Horror Film Viewing, states, " The horror genre must keep terror and comedy in tension if it is to successfully tread the thin line that separates it from terrorism and parody ... this delicate balance is struck in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre in which the decaying corpse of Grandpa not only incorporates horrific and humorous effects, but actually uses one to exacerbate the other.

His seminal work is concerned with the principles of legislation and the hedonic calculus is introduced with the words “ Pleasures then, and the avoidance of pains, are the ends that the legislator has in view .” In Chapter VII Bentham says, “ The business of government is to promote the happiness of the society, by punishing and rewarding … In proportion as an act tends to disturb that happiness, in proportion as the tendency of it is pernicious, will be the demand it creates for punishment .”

" Fifteen years later, Time critic Richard Schickel listed it as one of his " Guilty Pleasures "; while acknowledging " there are people who think this film ... may be the worst big budget film of modern times ", Schickel disagreed, saying " if you set aside the routine comic expectations its marketing encouraged, you may find yourself entranced by a movie that is utterly sui generis.

In this art of " raising a subject ", as the 18th century phrase was, the Pleasures of Memory is much more perfect than Thomas Campbell's Pleasures of Hope, published a few years later in imitation.

" Jones is quoted in The Pleasures of Jazz as also saying of Eckstine: " If he ’ d been white, the sky would have been the limit.

The irreverent eroticism for which his poetry is noted resulted in W H Smith's banning of his " The Pleasures of the Flesh " ( 1966 ) from their shops.

There is an organic and fair trade emphasis amongst some businesses including Belgrave Organics, at least three cafés serving fairtrade coffee ( Earthly Pleasures Organic Café, Café Green Bean and Reel Café ).

His use of Cleopatra's poem from D. M. Thomas ’ Ararat in Deadly Pleasures is highlighted by his setting of the work for narrator and ensemble.

The earliest documented example of the English word ' consort ' in a musical sense is in George Gascoigne ’ s The Princelye Pleasures ( 1576 ).

I Modi ( The Ways ), also known as The Sixteen Pleasures or under the Latin title De omnibus Veneris Schematibus, is a famous erotic book of the Italian Renaissance in which a series of sexual positions were explicitly depicted in engravings.

" Pleasures of the Harbor ", the title track, is a dirge to lonely sailors seeking human comfort and connection while in port.

" Overall, this is a more diverse collection than 2002's 20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection: The Best of Phil Ochs, which tips the balance more heavily toward Pleasures of the Harbor.

Though De Quincey was later criticized for giving too much attention to the pleasure of opium and not enough to the harsh negatives of addiction, The Pains of Opium is in fact significantly longer than The Pleasures.

Arguably the most famous and often-quoted passage in the Confessions is the apostrophe to opium in the final paragraph of The Pleasures:

Ayla is attracted to Ranec, shares " Pleasures " with him a few times, and comes close to marrying him before several last-minute revelations reunite the former pair.

When the Pleasures ' holiday home explodes in a supposed gas leak, Alex suspects Yassen is involved and sneaks onto his yacht.

Earlier in The Pleasures of Opium, De Quincey describes the long walks he took through the London streets under the drug's influence:

" Criticisms of the film generally revolved around the idea that the film was overly long and meandering ( a common criticism of Jia's films, see, for example, Unknown Pleasures ).

With Gray as his model, Rogers took great pains in polishing his verses, and six years elapsed after the publication of his first volume before he printed his elaborate poem on The Pleasures of Memory ( 1792 ) — regarded by some as the last embodiment of the poetic diction of the 18th century.

The name for the city comes from the poem, " The Pleasures of Hope ", by the Scottish poet Thomas Campbell.

The name for the community comes from the poem, " The Pleasures of Hope " by Scottish poet Thomas Campbell.

The 2005 documentary film Plagues & Pleasures on the Salton Sea ( narrated by John Waters ) features Bono and documented the lives of the inhabitants of Bombay Beach, Niland, and Salton City, as well as the ecological issues associated with the Sea.

The fantasy novel The Folk of the Air by Peter S. Beagle was written after the author attended a few early SCA events circa 1968 ; but he has repeatedly stated that he then studiously avoided any contact with the actual SCA itself for almost two decades, so that his description of a fictitious " League for Archaic Pleasures " would not be " contaminated " by contact with the actual real-life organization.

In his The Pleasures of Japanese Literature, Keene claims Murasaki wrote the " supreme work of Japanese fiction " by drawing on traditions of court diaries, and earlier monogatari — written in a mixture of Chinese script and Japanese script — such as The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter or The Tales of Ise.

* Singular Pleasures by Harry Mathews describes 61 different scenes, each told in a different style ( generally poetic, elaborate, or circumlocutory ) in which 61 different people ( all of different ages, nationalities, and walks of life ) masturbate.

* The 2006 documentary film Plagues and Pleasures on the Salton Sea ( narrated by John Waters ) documented the lives of the inhabitants of Bombay Beach, Niland, and Salton City, as well as the ecological issues associated with the Sea.

* The 2006 documentary film Plagues and Pleasures on the Salton Sea ( narrated by John Waters ) documented the lives of the inhabitants of Niland, as well as the ecological issues associated with the Sea-www. saltonseadoc. com.

* The 2006 documentary film Plagues and Pleasures on the Salton Sea ( narrated by John Waters ) documented the lives of the inhabitants of Salton City, as well as the ecological issues associated with the Sea-www. saltonseadoc. com.

Gentlemen's Pleasures by Adolphe-Alexandre Lesrel, 1885

A collection of Julius Knipl strips was published in 1991 by Penguin Books ( as a RAW One-Shot ) as Cheap Novelties: The Pleasures of Urban Decay.

* " Disorder ", a song by Joy Division, from their album Unknown Pleasures

He made his reputation by The Pleasures of Memory when William Cowper's fame was still in the making.

The book features photographs by the documentary photographer Richard Baker, with whom de Botton also worked on The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work.

Hook sings “ Pictures In My Mind ”, an unfinished Joy Division track discovered on a demo recording unearthed by the band ’ s “ bootleg society ” from a rehearsal tape stolen in 1977, setting it between Warsaw and Unknown Pleasures.

* The college features prominently in the second episode of Guilty Pleasures, a two part documentary presented by Cambridge academic Michael C Scott on the subject of luxury.

* Robert & Ellen Kaplan ( about 1930 / 40s -), authors of Nothing That Is, The Art of the Infinite: The Pleasures of Mathematics, and Chances Are: Adventures in Probability ( by Michael Kaplan and Ellen Kaplan ).

*" Shadowplay " ( Joy Division song ), a song by Joy Division on their debut album Unknown Pleasures

*" Vicious Circle ", a song by Quiet Riot from Guilty Pleasures

" In Pleasures of New Writing: An Anthology of Poems, Stories, and Other Prose Pieces from the Pages of New Writing, edited by John Lehmann.

** Midnight Pleasures by Robert Bloch