 | Mary Jane Mackenzie - 1835 - 410 pages
...think such recollections are not at all 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 on it still:' Such recollections have no sweetness." " That, my dear Miss Grenville, is because you... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1835 - 440 pages
...memories fill'd ! Like the vase in which roses have once been distill'd— You may break, you may ruin ihe vase, if you will, But the scent of the roses will hang round it still. OH ! DOUBT ME NOT. AIR— Yellow Wat and the Fox. OH ! doubt me not — the season Is o'er when Folly... | |
 | R. T. Claridge - 1837 - 268 pages
...Sinks, like a sea-weed, into whence she rose !" Venice, however, is still beautiful in her ruins. " You may break, you may ruin, the vase if you will,...But the scent of the roses will hang round it still !" The Piazzo St. Marco, and the adjoining edifices, form a group to which Europe offers nothing in... | |
 | Cynosure - 1837 - 272 pages
...long be my heart with such memories fill'd ! Like the vase in which roses have once been distil I'd, You may break, you may ruin the vase if you will,...But the scent of the roses will hang round it still. MOORE. WHAT strange creatures are the greatest part of mankind ! what a composition of contradictions!... | |
 | Theodore Edward Hook - 1838 - 346 pages
...her heart the destinies of the man with those of the master. " Like the vase in which roses have once been distill'd ; You may break, you may ruin the vase...the scent of the roses will hang round it still." " Well, let me see," said Fanny ; and accordingly read. " Transport Seahorse, Jibbs, Master. " Dear... | |
 | Davies Gilbert - 1838 - 448 pages
...practised, and wrought into habit at the early age when sincerum est vas. After which, one can truly say You may break, you may ruin the vase if you will,...But the scent of the roses will hang round it still. After a residence of five years, from twelve to seventeen, at Eton, Mr. Basset became a member of King's... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1838 - 618 pages
...who knows how to squeeze into an essence, with skill and discretion, the treasures they contain. " You may break, you may ruin the vase, if you will,...the scent of the roses will hang round it still." Apt — not rare ! — but the reader may have Greek, if he likes, to the same effect, — 'A ffrat$u).}{... | |
 | 1838 - 448 pages
...desolation, could we help lingering until the hour warned us to depart; how truly has the poet said : You may break, you may ruin, the vase, if you will, But the scent of the rotes will hang on it still. New Longwood, built by the government for Napoleon, at an inconsiderable... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1838 - 412 pages
...memories fill'd ! Like the vase in which roses have once been distill'd— You may break, you may ruin ihe vase, if you will, But the scent of the roses will hang round it still. OH ! DOUBT ME NOT. AIR— Yellow Wat and the Fox. Он ! doubt me not — the season Is o'er when Folly... | |
 | William Evans Burton, Edgar Allan Poe - 1838 - 448 pages
...until Ihe hour warned ui to depart ; how truly bas the poet said : Vuu may break, you may ruin, Ihe vase, if you will. But the scent of the roses will hang on it still. New Longwood, built by Ihe government fer Napoleon, at an inconsiderable distance, would... | |
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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. 
