Sardanapalus
Britishnoun
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His opening salvo was 1978’s The Destroyed Room, an image of a woman’s trashed bedroom that referenced Romantic-era painter Eugène Delacroix’s The Death of Sardanapalus.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2015
The translations of Childe Harold, Cantos I.-IV., and of Sardanapalus, are on pp. 1-424.
From The Works of Lord Byron, Vol. 7. Poetry by Ernest Hartley Coleridge
There was then a period of languor and decadence, some echo of which, and of its accompanying disasters, seems to have been embodied by the Greeks in the romantic tale of Sardanapalus.
From A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria, v. 1 by Sir Walter Armstrong
Charles the Ninth was sickly, jealous, and desirous of removing from the court the Duke of Anjou, whom two victories had made popular, though he afterwards sunk into a Sardanapalus.
From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 by Isaac Disraeli
What is poor Byron made of, but a peg—a mere peg—whereon to hang the fine clothes of a Sardanapalus?
From Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) by Various
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