| Henry Allon - Christianity - 1847 - 600 pages
...who, though somewhat too faded and flowery, ruined and broken down, is yet as the vase of Moore — ' You may break, you may ruin the vase if you will,...the scent of the roses will hang round it still.' But no ; there is an indolence and a stagnation among proprietors and editors which are extraordinary.... | |
| Edward Vaughan Kenealy - English literature - 1845 - 356 pages
...memories 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." This thought is as common to the poets as a barber's chair to the unshaven, or flirtation at church.... | |
| Edward Vaughan Kenealy - English literature - 1845 - 362 pages
...memories fiWd, 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." This thought is as common to the poets as a barber's chair to the unshaven, or flirtation at church.... | |
| 822 pages
...walls, fallen turrets, and broken columns, indicates former grandeur. " You may break, you may shatter the vase if you will. But the scent of the roses will cling to it still." The dignity of man's nature is apparent when we consider — Tfo perfection of... | |
| Henry Riddell Montgomery - 1846 - 242 pages
...Long, long be my heart with such memories flll'd; Like a vase In which roses have once been distill'd, You may break, you may ruin the vase if you will,...the scent of the roses will hang round it still." MOORE. MISCELLANEOUS ADDENDA. THE DIRGE OF DARGO.* TRANSLATED BY JOHN ANSTER, LL.D. CHORUS. Like the... | |
| Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1846 - 548 pages
...indestructible through all changes pf men and times. '-Like the vase in which roses have once been distil'd, You may break, you may ruin the vase if you will,...the scent of the roses will hang round it still." Among the reveries of the Talmudists, is one which tells us that the bone of which Eve was made, was... | |
| Quotations, English - 1847 - 526 pages
...long be my heart with such memories fill'd ! 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. MOORE. 1 1 . When time, which steals our years away, Shall steal our pleasures too, The memory of the... | |
| 1854 - 998 pages
...Testa diu." Which Moore has freely rendered : " Like a 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." 62 " He hath made every thing beautiful." — Eccl. Hi. 11. " Immortals, guard our sylvan loves !"... | |
| Quotations, English - 1847 - 540 pages
...long be my heart with such memories fill'd ! 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. MOORE. 11. When time, which steals our years away, Shall steal our pleasures too, The memory of the... | |
| Quintus Horatius Flaccus - 1848 - 588 pages
...mediaeval Latin curtilagium.] 70. Testa. The jar or vase in which perfumes have been placed : — " You may break, you may ruin, the vase, if you will,...the scent of the roses will hang round it still." Quod si. The poet professes his love of moderation.] EPISTLE III. Horace inquires of Julius Florus... | |
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