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" 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 22
by Horace Smith - 1827
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Reuben Apsley. By the author of Brambletye house

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...
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Memoirs of the Court of England During the Reign of the Stuarts ..., Volume 2

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...
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Waldie's Select Circulating Library, Volume 15

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,...
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Poetical Works of Edmund Waller

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...
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Memoirs of the Court of England During the Reign of the Stuarts ..., Volume 2

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,...
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The poetical works of Edmund Waller and sir John Denham, with mem. and ...

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...
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The Poems and Masque of Thomas Carew...: With an Introductory Memoir, an ...

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...
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Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Volume 38

Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Charles Henry Warner, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle - Literature - 1897 - 628 pages
...tempests cease, Was in that storm to have so calm a peace. THE COUNTESS OF CARLISLE 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...
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Library of the World's Best Literature: A-Z

Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H. Warner, Edward Cornelius Towne - Anthologies - 1897 - 674 pages
...tempests cease, Was in that storm to have so calm a peace. THE COUNTESS OF CARLISLE 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...
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Memoirs of the court of England during the reigns of the Stuarts, including ...

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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