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Updated: June 13, 2025
Doubtless, Curtius rode at his last leap without a speck on his burnished mail: purple, and gold, and gems flamed all round Sardanapalus when he fired the holocaust in Nineveh: even that miserable, dastardly Nero was solicitous about the marble fragments that were to line his felon's grave.
The Medes, a brave and warlike people, never attained to so high a degree of civilization as the Babylonians, nor did they ever have a monarch whose fame equalled that of Sardanapalus, the King of Assyria; of Nebuchadnezzar; or of Croesus, King of Lydia; but under a succession of astute and hardy warriors, who held the throne for something over one hundred and fifty years, their dominion was gradually extended until it stretched from the Indus to the centre of Asia Minor.
Look here, young man" and Sardanapalus began to speak very slowly, with tremendous emphasis and solemnity "and remember what I'm going to say until your dying day. If I were to drink too much of this, I should be intoxicated; but what is the intoxication produced by whiskey compared with the intoxication of applause?
He is a youth peculiarly susceptible to the very influence that Sardanapalus typifies, and the wise parent will hesitate before sending his son to Sybaris rather than to Sparta. When the presence of Sardanapalus at Harvard was criticised as dangerous and lamentable, the President promptly denied that the youth abounded at the university, or that his influence was wide-spread.
From Ninyas to Sardanapalus from the commencement to the close of the Empire a line of voluptuaries, according to Ctesias and his followers, held possession of the throne; and the principle was established from the first, that happiness consisted in freedom from all cares or troubles, and unchecked indulgence in every species of sensual pleasure.
Then I began to read Manfred, Marino Faliero, Sardanapalus the Deformed Transformed ... The Bride of Abydos, The Corsair, Lara, The Prisoner of Chillon. The frontispiece to the book was a portrait of Byron with flowing tie and open shirt.
He has learned to write not in his own land, but in the England of the eighteenth century. When he speaks of "the pampered Sardanapalus of Versailles," and of "the silken favourites' calculated adultery," we are conscious that he has learnt whatever lesson Gibbon has to teach. In other words, he, too, is obedient to the imperious voice of convention.
The situations were impossible and absurd. The speeches were bombast. The sentiment was silly and untrue. And Sardanapalus himself was none so distraught by his unpleasant dream and all his other troubles but that he was looking forward to his glass of whiskey-and-water between the acts. No, he didn't impose on me one bit.
You believe, and yet you deliver me up to him who fills and defiles the world with his heresies and debaucheries to that infamous Sardanapalus whom the blind call the Duke of Buckingham, and whom believers name Antichrist!" "I deliver you up to Buckingham? I? what mean you by that?" "They have eyes," cried Milady, "but they see not; ears have they, but they hear not."
He wants the Commune to finish in fire and flame as a funeral pile. I hope he will be on the top of it, like Sardanapalus, and suffer the most. Horrible man! I received a letter from Mr. Mallet this morning, inclosing an invitation to assist at a concert given by all the musiques militaires a Paris on the Place de la Concorde, and offering a ticket for two places on the terrace of the Tuileries.
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