10 examples of delightfull in sentences

The purpose of poetry is to Sidney, in the first place, to teach and delight, "that fayning notable images of vertues, vices, or what els, with that delightfull teaching which must be the right describing note to know a poet by.

"Yet is there one, the most delightfull kind, A loftie jumping, or a leaping round, Where arme and arme two dauncers are entwind, And whirle themselues with strict embracements bound, And still their feet an anapest do sound: An anapest is all their musicks song, Whose first two feet are short, and third is long.

Then come the women-musicians and sing sweetly before the Emperour, which musike was more delightfull vnto me.

This citie is very large, delightfull, and pleasant, abounding with gardens and faire fountaines.

Without the city and on euery side are most faire gardens, with many fountaines of most sweet water, infinite pondes, abundance of fruit, with much honest liuing, so that this place is very pleasant and delightfull.

His plate, his iewels, hangings, household stuffe, May well beseeme to fit a demie King; His stately buildings, his delightfull walkes, His fertile meadowes, and rich ploughed lands, His well-growne woods and stor'd fishing ponds, Brings endlesse wealth, besides continuall helpe, To keepe a good and hospitable house:

I, for prick-song to Ladies is most pleasant and delightfull: as thus for your congie, All hayle to my belooved; then for your departure, sad dispaire doth drive me hence: for all must be to effect.

The passage in "Purchas his Pilgrimage" to which Coleridge refers is as follows: "In Xamdu did Cublai Can build a stately Palace, encompassing sixteene miles of plaine ground with a wall, wherein are fertile Meddowes, pleasant Springs, delightfull Streames, and all sorts of beasts of chase and game, and in the middest thereof a sumptuous house of pleasure" (quoted in the Notes of the Globe edition).

'tis a Paratour That comes to tell ye a delightfull story Of an old whore ye have, and then to teach ye What is the penaltie; Laugh at me now Sir, What Legacie would ye bequeath me now, (And pay it on the nail?) to fly my fury? Lop.

Delightfull harmonie!

10 examples of  delightfull  in sentences