By contrast with his sociable and often indolent friend, whose self-indulgence charmed others into feeling indulged, the austere and harder-working Wordsworth had no such success to compensate for his literary woes.
This lavishly illustrated volume, edited by Donald Albrecht and Jeannine Falino and published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York, illuminates the mansions, costumes and other accouterments of the people whose philanthropy helped produce the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Metropolitan Opera, but whose self-indulgence also gave big money a bad name.
The £161m Euromillions jackpot, which accrues interest of around 15 grand a day, has gone to Chris and Colin Weir, whose lavishest indulgence so far is a bottle of celebratory wine at home in Largs, Ayrshire.
Rochester provides a hectic portrait of a world whose futile indulgence has much in common with today's celebrity circuit, but the primary force of the poetry is felt at the intersection of talent, fury and the frenzied attempt to make something out of seeming nothingness.
But Mao was indeed known to everyone who visited him, from Edgar Snow in the 1930s during the Revolution up to the foreign leaders who came in recent years, as a man of simple tastes whose greatest indulgence was smoking, and eating hot peppers.
His father was an alcoholic, his mother a semi-invalid whose few indulgences included a big collection of classical, jazz and folk LP's.
Likely some version of the classical carnivalesque ringleader, Northlandz' founder, Bruce Williams Zaccagnino's obsession made for an experiential indulgence whose duration merits the online warning, "children should use the rest room before beginning".
His mother is a writer whose memoir, "Without Indulgences," was published this year in Russia.
C. 1465 Pirna, Germany August 11, 1519 Leipzig, Germany Johann Tetzel, Tetzel also spelled Tezel (born c. 1465, Pirna, Saxony [Germany] died Aug. 11, 1519, Leipzig) German Dominican friar whose preaching on indulgences, considered by many of his contemporaries to be an abuse of the sacrament of penance, sparked Martin Luther's reaction.
(An NFL quarterback whose most extreme indulgences are walnuts and grilled chicken?).
