Nyrop adds that the love kiss, "rich in promise, bestows an intoxicating feeling of infinite happiness, courage, and youth, and therefore surpasses all other earthly joys in sublimity.

"I don't dare go out," said Anne, in the tone of a martyr relinquishing all earthly joys.

"Time there was when earthly joy" (Chorus (with Soprano and Contralto solo), Arrostino, and Pietro)

By old tradition those who have fasted will feel uplifted, their spirituality reinforced by self-restraint and denial of earthly joys.

For a young woman this dream signals the realization of the highest earthly joys.

And above the garish lights of earthly joys and the dim reek of earthly wretchedness, he sees the solemn firmament that veils his race's destiny.

One of Blake's strongest objections to orthodox Christianity is that he felt it encouraged the suppression of natural desires and discouraged earthly joy.

No, she thought, if he could see you now he would turn away, his eyes drawn to the youthful skin and the earthly joys of girls like Olympias.

Rome does right well to censure all the vain Talk of Jansenius, and of them who preach That earthly joys are damnable!

The phrase "as a dream doth flatter" correlates strongly with the Petrarchan view that earthly joys are briefly.