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. British ferns and mosses - Page 87by British ferns - 1861Full view - About this book
| 1913 - 586 pages
...amplified in the concluding lines of one of Moore's ' Irish Melodies ' : — You may break, you may shatter the vase, if you will, But the scent of the roses will hang round it still. The reference is. of course, to a vase in which roses have been distilled. J. FOSTER PALMER. 8, Royal... | |
| 1850 - 544 pages
...for " as." The same paper, a short time since, made sad work with Moore, thus : — " You may break, you may ruin the vase if you will, But the scent of the roses will hang by it still." Moore says nothing about the scents hanging by the vase. " Hanging" is an odious term,... | |
| 1856 - 624 pages
...the most amusing is perhaps in the case of the beautiful sentiment of T. Moore's— " You may break, you may ruin the vase if you will, But the scent of the roses will cling to it stUL" This Mr. Lynch has inverted and spoilt, set free the odour first, and broken the... | |
| 1850 - 524 pages
...term, and destroys the sentiment altogether. What Moore really does say is this : — " You mny break, you may ruin the vase if you will, But the scent of the roses will cling round it still." Now the couplet appears in its original beauty. It is impossible to speak of... | |
| 1850 - 780 pages
...would never cease to be felt — " Like a vase in which roses have once been distilled ; Yon mny break, you may ruin the vase if you will, But the scent of the roses will cling round it still." With such influences and culture at home as we have hinted at, how different... | |
| Ambrose Maclandreth (fict.name.) - 1851 - 180 pages
...with such memories (ill'd ! Like the rase, hi which roses hare 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." MOOEE. AFTER Mr. Maclandreth's departure, Eomsdale's visits to Fair- View Cottage became more frequent... | |
| Victor von Arentsschild - 1851 - 588 pages
...memories iill'd! Like the vase, in which roses have once been distill'd — You may break, you may shatfcr the vase, if you will, But the scent of the roses will hang round it still. jCrbtnioljl! — î>od) fe oft гиф Ъ\е Stunte lud) lnd)t. 8ebttt>ot)l! — bod) fo oft eud) bie... | |
| 1852 - 142 pages
...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. MOORB. THE PAST. AS O'ER THE PAST MY MEMORY STRAYS. As o'er the past my memnry straya, Why heaves... | |
| Thomas Moore - 1852 - 212 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 I DOUBT ME NOT. OH ! doubt me not — the season Is o'er, when Folly made me rove, And now the vestal,... | |
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