 | Conduct of life - 1855 - 902 pages
...— 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 ;...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 are willing that... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1855 - 810 pages
...fill'd ! Like the vase, in which roses have once been distill'd — You may break, you may shatter the vase, if you will, But the scent of the roses will hang round it still. OH! DOUBT ME NOT. OH ! doubt me not — the season Is o'er, when Folly made me rove, And now *he vestal,... | |
 | Lizzie R. Torrey - Conduct of life - 1856 - 362 pages
...and the poet hath well said of it, — " "Tis like the vase in which roses have once been distilled ; You may break, you may ruin the vase if you will,...the scent of the roses will hang round it still." And thus I might continue to show thee the greatness of the spirit, and how that it suffereth but little... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1856 - 660 pages
...be lost when sweetest. Farewell! But whenever you welcome the hour. You may break, you may shatter the vase, if you will, But the scent of the roses will hang round it still. Ballad Stanzas. I knew by the smoke that so gracefully curled Above the green elms, that a cottage... | |
 | Q. K. Philander Doesticks - American wit and humor - 1856 - 290 pages
...death-song ; To the air of Yankee Doodle, Ancient air of Yankee Doodle, • " You may break, you may shatter the vase if you will, But the scent of the roses will hang round it still."— MOOBB. 260 MELANCHOLY DEATH OF CUFFEI. Sung his sad and cruel death-song, Like the Indians that you... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - Literature - 1857 - 672 pages
...that early dream, and the dark eyelash would feel a moisture springing from the fount of remembrance. You may break, you may ruin the vase if you will,...But the scent of the roses will hang round it still. Early in life, Julia Betterton had been deprived of her mother, and had no staff on which to lean when... | |
 | Epes Sargent - Elocution - 1857 - 444 pages
...my 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 scent of the roses will hang round it still. T. MOORE. LXXXV. — THE RUINS OF ROME. O, ROME ! my country ! city of the soul ! The orphans of the... | |
 | Henry Harbaugh - 1857 - 284 pages
...kindness and love still teaches us to love them. Like the vase in which roses have once been distill'd— You may break, you may ruin the vase if you will;...But the scent of the roses will hang round it still! Their names are still to us " like ointment poured forth," the odour of which comes to us richest in... | |
 | James Ewing Ritchie - Lifestyles - 1857 - 256 pages
...beautiful even in spite of her long-lost virtue and life of sin. For, " You may break, you may ruiu, the vase if you will, But the scent of the roses will hang round it still." The man seated by her side is in love with her. It may be for her love he has given up mother, sister,... | |
 | Conduct of life - 1857 - 904 pages
...! — Like a vase, in which roses have once been distilled — You may break, you may ruin the vaso if you will, But the scent of the roses will hang round it still." the excellencies of the Prussian system, he says : ' But if those schools only taught letters and science,... | |
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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. 
