rose-couch

Updated: June 14, 2025

There is a kind of magnetism in extreme woe, by which the body itself seems laid asleep, and knows no distinction between the bed of Damiens and the rose-couch of the Sybarite. He left his carriage and servants at a post-house some miles distant.

Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton - Alice, or the Mysteries — Complete

There is a kind of magnetism in extreme woe, by which the body itself seems laid asleep, and knows no distinction between the bed of Damiens and the rose-couch of the Sybarite. He left his carriage and servants at a post-house some miles distant.

Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton - Alice, or the Mysteries — Book 10