 Like the vase in which roses have once been distilled — You may break, you may shatter the vase if you will, But the scent of the roses will hang round it still.  Notes and Queries - Стр. 261850Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1853 - Страниц: 606
...be felt in the influence it exercised over the intellectual development of the eighteenth century. " You may break, you may ruin the vase if you will, But the scent of the roses will hang round it still !" Of the many phases in which he is presented to us, poet, musician, historian, biographer,... | |
 | 1853 - Страниц: 664
...such memories fill'd ! — Like a vase, in which roses have once been distilled — You may break, yon may ruin the vase if you will, But the scent of the roses will hang round it still ' 1853.] Parochial, or Christian Schools, 41 mon School System in this country, makes... | |
 | Sir Charles Augustus Murray - 1854 - Страниц: 364
...apply to this animal what the poet has so prettily said of the tenacious perfume of the rose : — " You may break, you may ruin the vase, if you will, But the scent of the roses will hang round it still." I was not a little amused at the awkwardness I experienced in a drawing-room : I literally... | |
 | 1854 - Страниц: 652
...death ; and memory will, over this natural desolation, linger, realizing the beautiful words— *' You may break, you may ruin the vase, if you •will, But the scent of tho rose shall hang round it Btill." This young man, then, in 1849, was supplying, during his vacation,... | |
 | Elizabeth Caroline Grey - 1854 - Страниц: 266
...with such memories filled, Like a vase in which roses have once been distilled; You muy break — yon may ruin the vase if you will, But the scent of the roses will hang round it 'tii!." It is one of the melancholy pleasures of declining life, to recollect every circumstance... | |
 | William Hogan - 1854 - Страниц: 686
...be useful to posterity. Yes, as the poet beautifully expresses it, "You may break — you may rain the vase, if you will, But the scent of the roses will hang round it still." The failure of any system, as I have observed, is not a sufficient argument against... | |
 | 1855 - Страниц: 902
...— a fragrance that time cannot waste. " Like the vase, in which roses have once been distilled — You may break, you may ruin the vase if you will ; But the scent of the roses will hang round it still." If you have not yet a good name — choose it. The choice is before yon. God and man... | |
 | 1855 - Страниц: 838
...literary quarters, with a well-kuowu couplet of Moore, thus: '• You may break, you may ruin the vaec if you will, But the scent of the roses will hang by it still." Scents hnwjiny by л broken vase! Our readers, we are sure, will agree with us that all the harmony... | |
 | 1855 - Страниц: 852
...is utterly destroyed by this tuisquotaion, when we give them what Moore really did say, namely : " You may break, you may ruin the vase if you will, But the «oent of the rosas will ding round it atUl." Hanging is a harsh, unsuitable term, and smacks of the... | |
 | Mary Virginia Terhune - 1855 - Страниц: 256
...long be the heart with such memories filled, Like the vase in which roses have once been distilled ; You may break, you may ruin the vase if you will, But the breath of the roses will linger there still." The murmur of the deep, lifting its million hands to... | |
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