But for the creator and sybarite enjoyer of this sickening boudoir, he would now be in honoured command of men.
"The Rough Road"
William John Locke
Or is it that from being a deluder of others he has become at last his own dupe as he is, if report belie him not, his own and his only enjoyer?
"Ulysses"
James Joyce
Foremost among such cases would be the crushing blow that befell the noble and greatly gifted novelist and poet, Sir Walter Scott, at the age of fifty-five years, when, having given to the world the greater part of those glorious works that have placed his name pre-eminent in the world of literature, and being, as was supposed, the happy enjoyer of a handsome fortune and splendid estate, it transpired that he was a ruined man.
"Curiosities of Impecuniosity"
H. G. Somerville