Crossword-Solution: AMREETA 7 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

But to that other class, whose nervous sensibilities vibrate to their profoundest depths under the first touch of the angelic poison, even as a lover's ear thrills on hearing unexpectedly the voice of her whom he loves, opium is the Amreeta cup of beatitude.

But to that other class whose nervous sensibilities vibrate to their profoundest depths under the first touch of the angelic poison, opium is the Amreeta cup of beatitude.

There is, perhaps, not a more beautiful, nor a more frequently applicable allegory than that of the famous Amreeta Cup--I know not whether devised by Southey, or borrowed by him from the rich store of instructive fable hidden in oriental tradition.

Even in the Sanscrit, _a-mrita_ expresses the elixir of life, “the amreeta cup of immortality,” which terminates the woes of Kailyal in the _Curse of Kehama_, and according to Hindoo myth was produced by the celebrated churning of the ocean.