One of Byron's works,Sardanapalus, is a tragedy about a bored, luxurious monarch who one day in a pique of ennui has all of his possessions, slaves, etc and himself destroyed and burned. Below: The Death of Sardanapalus by Eugene Delacroix
There is a careless courage which Corruption
Has not all quenched, and latent energies,
Repressed by circumstance, but not destroyed -
Steeped, but not drowned, in deep, voluptuousness.
