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There lay the great voluptuary, under the general gaze; like one of its feudal lords dying of his own debauch lying helpless from infirmity, surrounded with useless pomp, and in the sight of luxuries which he could taste no more until death came, and he was swept away from his place among men. Germany was unknown even in Europe, but by the military struggles of Prussia and Austria.
Philip was gentle in disposition, effeminate in manners, and, though a voluptuary in his tastes, a man of chivalric courage. As Duke of Orleans he had large wealth, many retainers, and feudal privileges, which invested him with power which even the king was compelled to respect. Charles II. was now King of England. The whole nation had apparently received him with exultation.
His countenance bore as little the marks of self-denial, as his habit indicated contempt of worldly splendour. His features might have been called good, had there not lurked under the pent-house of his eye, that sly epicurean twinkle which indicates the cautious voluptuary.
PART III The Allegorical Sense of the Parable The Wicked Man in Prosperity contented with his state and persisting in evil, a fit subject for reproof. A voluptuary and a miser, magnificently attired, is clasping to his heart a purse full of money and a bunch of flowers and corn. The Divine Warning.
It is in prayer, using the word in this extended sense, that we come into immediate contact with the things that cannot be shaken. Are we to set against such plain testimony the pessimistic agnosticism of a voluptuary like Omar Khayyám? There was the Door to which I found no Key. . . . May it not be that the door has no key because it has no lock?
Strange combination of the hero, the warrior, the voluptuary, the sage, and the schoolboy it would be difficult to find in the whole range of history a more human, a more attractive, a more provoking, a less venerable character.
Mahomet himself, after all that can be said about him, was not a sensual man. We shall err widely if we consider this man as a common voluptuary, intent mainly on base enjoyments, nay on enjoyments of any kind. His household was of the frugalest; his common diet barley-bread and water: sometimes for months there was not a fire once lighted on his hearth.
But this earnestness and seriousness were, in truth, his darkest vices; for the most frivolous voluptuary that ever wore a crown would never have compassed a thousandth part of the evil which was Philip's life-work. It was because he was a believer in himself, and in what he called his religion, that he was enabled to perpetrate such a long catalogue of crimes.
And scarcely would it have been possible to recognize in that lazy voluptuary the dauntless soldier, before whose lance, as deer before the hound, had so lately fled, at bloody Erpingham, the chivalry of the Lancastrian Rose; but remote from the pavilion, and in one of the deserted bowling alleys, Prince Richard and Lord Montagu walked apart, in earnest conversation.
During the whole of this period they were two of the most flourishing cities in all Hellas. Sybaris in particular attained to an extraordinary degree of wealth, and its inhabitants were so notorious for their luxury, effeminacy, and debauchery, that their name has become proverbial for a voluptuary in ancient and modern times. Croton was the chief seat of the Pythagorean philosophy.
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