 | Oliver Wendell Holmes, Nathaniel Hawthorne, James Russell Lowell, John Greenleaf Whittier, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American literature - 1850 - 388 pages
...to linger in the places that know its outward form no longer, — " You may break, you may shatter the vase if you will, But the scent of the roses will hang round it still; " long, in the blessings that grateful lips breathe upon it; long, in its pledge and foretaste of immortality.... | |
 | Education - 1850 - 780 pages
...active, 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... | |
 | Questions and answers - 1850 - 524 pages
...odious 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... | |
 | Ambrose Maclandreth (fict.name.) - 1851 - 180 pages
...used to wear. Long, long be my heart with such memories (ill'd ! Like the rase, hi which roses hare once been distill'd— You may break, you may ruin...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 - English poetry - 1851 - 588 pages
...the features that joy used to wear. Long, long be my heart with such 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! —... | |
 | English poetry - 1852 - 142 pages
...long be 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. MOORB. THE PAST. AS O'ER THE PAST MY MEMORY STRAYS. As o'er the past my memnry straya, Why heaves... | |
 | Lewis Gaylord Clark - Wit and humor - 1852 - 388 pages
...journeyings and my labors have brought bad habits upon me. (Excuse the pun, Sir : it is a college failing. ' You may break, you may ruin the vase if you will, but the scent of the rose will linger there still.') SECOND : I want money to' buy a small negro boy; one that I can call,... | |
 | Thomas Moore - Ballads, English - 1852 - 212 pages
...the features that joy us'd to wear. Long, 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 shatter the vase, if you will, But the scent of the roses will hang round it still. OH I DOUBT ME NOT.... | |
 | Beautiful poetry - 1853 - 740 pages
...chains about the feet of God. TENNYSON. Long, long be my heart with such memories fill'd ! Like the vase in which roses have once been distill'd, You may break,...But the scent of the roses will hang round it still. MOOBE. Oh ! that fear When the heart longs to know, what it is death to hear. CROLY. A LOVEB'S INVOCATION.... | |
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You may break, you may shatter the vase if you will, But the scent of the roses will hang round it still. 
