death-pallors

Updated: May 27, 2025

Disrobing, and haunted, in all probability, by eyes in whose light he was happy enough, the spoiled young man, who then affected death-pallors, and wished the world to believe that he felt his richest wines powdered with the dust of graves, of which wine, notwithstanding, he frequently took more than was good for him, wrote, "That sleep the loveliest, since it dreams the least."

Alexander Smith - Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country