Meanings of substantial pleasure in anglès

Health is a source of more substantial pleasure than the most cultivated understanding.

The one substantial pleasure of the village is procured by the sorrows of others.

But what a racy and substantial pleasure is that!

It was not paying a social debt reluctantly, relieved to have it over, but a solid, substantial pleasure.

The novel-reader therefore, by becoming indisposed towards these, excludes himself from moral improvement, and deprives himself of the most substantial pleasure, which reading can produce.

At last, joking was over, and I reminded her that we had to think of more substantial pleasures.

They are providing misery for themselves, as well as for others: instead of the substantial pleasures of which they are in search.'

As to external parade, it will not satisfy the rational mind when it aspires to those substantial pleasures for which yours is formed.