OF HER CHAMBER THEY taste of death, that do at heaven arrive; But we this paradise approach alive. Instead of Death, the dart of Love does strike: And renders all within these walls alike; The high in titles, and the shepherd here Forgets his greatness,... Reuben Apsley - Page 22by Horace Smith - 1827Full view - About this book
| Horace Smith - 1827 - 1150 pages
...urbanity, comeliness, and all that was consummately polished, delectable, and debonair. =•i-*.. " They taste of death that do at heaven arrive, But...friend Sir George Etherege for putting these words into tbe mouth of Dorimant, for they have furnished me with a most appropriate greeting at all times, and... | |
| John Heneage Jesse - Great Britain - 1840 - 382 pages
...insertion. A poem of Waller's on Lady Carlisle's bedchamber, commences with the following happy couplet : They taste of death that do at Heaven arrive, But we this paradise approach alive. deserted the gay and refined society in which she had basked from her childhood, to become the companion... | |
| Literature - 1841 - 500 pages
...insertion. A poem of Waller's on Lady Carlisle's bedchamber, commences with the following happy couplet: They taste of death that do at heaven arrive, But we this paradise approach alive. How strange nre the anomalies of the human mind! This frivolous lady, worldly, beautiful, and unprincipled,... | |
| Edmund Waller - English poetry - 1854 - 276 pages
...neither aids thy fancy nor thy sight, So ill thou rhym'st against so fair a light. OF HEE CHAMBER. THEY taste of death that do at heaven arrive; But we this paradise approach alive. Instead of death, the dart of love does strike, And renders all within these walls alike. The high... | |
| John Heneage Jesse - Great Britain - 1855 - 556 pages
...poem of Waller's, on Lady Carlisle's bed-chamber, commences with the following happy couplet : — ' ' They taste of death that do at Heaven arrive, But we this jraradise approach alive." How strange are the anomalies of the human mind ! Rich, witty, beautiful,... | |
| Edmund Waller - 1857 - 404 pages
...neither aids thy fancy nor thy sight, So ill thou rhym'st against so fair a light. OF HER CHAMBER. THEY taste of death that do at heaven arrive ; But we this paradise approach alive. Instead of death, the dart of love does strike, And renders all within these walls alike. The high... | |
| Thomas Carew - English poetry - 1893 - 362 pages
...yielding, that he betrays himself in the lines to this Circe, celebrative ' Of Her Chamber : ' — THEY taste of death that do at Heaven arrive ; But we this paradise approach alive. Instead of DEATH, the dart of LOVE does strike And renders all within these walls alike. The high in... | |
| John Heneage Jesse - Great Britain - 1901 - 374 pages
...insertion. A poem of Waller's, on Lady Carlisle's bedchamber, commences with the following happy couplet: " They taste of death that do at heaven arrive, But we this paradise approach alive." How strange are the anomalies of the human mind ! Rich, witty, beautiful, and high-born, this frivolous... | |
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