Unfortunately for his chance of success, Sir Jacques had also been a graduate of this school of artistic Libertinage.
"The Orchard of Tears"
Sax Rohmer
He would rather have died than return to Paris, there to begin again his carnal experiences, to live again his hours of Libertinage and lassitude; but if he could not again retrace his road, neither could he advance, for the road ended in a blind alley.
"En Route"
J.-K. (Joris-Karl) Huysmans
Young men at the universities, clever sixth-form boys at public schools, silly women who lend an ear to any chatter which is petulant and vivacious, novelists who have sought to imitate the style of paradox and unreality, poets who have lisped the language of nerveless and effeminate Libertinage-these are the persons who should ponder with themselves the doctrines and the career of the man who has now to undergo the righteous sentence of the law.
"Oscar Wilde"
Leonard Cresswell Ingleby