The Young Lions vocabulary

  "Himmlisch ist’s, wenn ich bezwungen

  Meine irdische Begier;

  Aber doch wenn’s nich gelungen

  Hatt’ ich auch recht huebsch Plaisir!"*

As he said this, Stepan Arkadyevitch smiled subtly. Levin, too, could not help smiling.

Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina

*It is heavenly, when I overcome

my earthly desires;

But when that does not pan out

I would rather have beautiful Plaisir!"