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" You may break, you may ruin the vase, if you will, But the scent of the roses will hang round it still. "
Gentleman's Magazine - Page 339
1838
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The Life-line of the Lone One: Or, Autobiography of the World's Child

Warren Chase - 1857 - 318 pages
...of cruelty and pain had worn upon the youthful frame, yet the poet's words were true, who saith, " You may break, you may ruin, the vase, if you will. But the scent of the roses will hang round it still. ' ' He reached and entered the poverty home, so like the one where...
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The Intermediate Standard Speaker: Containing Pieces for Declamation in ...

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...
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Bentley's Miscellany, Volume 41

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...
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Heavenly recognition

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...
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Bizarre: For Fireside and Wayside, Volume 2

1858 - 330 pages
..."Long be my heart with such memories fill'd! Like the vase in which roses have once been distilPd. You may break, you may ruin the vase, if you will, But the scent of the roses will hang round it still." THE ORIGINAL of Washington Irving's Ichabod Crane — Dr. Jesse Merwin...
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Flora; or, Self-deception, by A.L.O.E.

Charlotte Maria Tucker - 1858 - 212 pages
...nobler subject the beautiful simile of Moore, — " Like a 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." And Flora also prayed ; she besought the Lord with a fervour and depth...
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Poets and Poetry of Vermont

Abby Maria Hemenway - American poetry - 1858 - 424 pages
...wreath shall be a crown immortal, Par, far above the wasting wrecks of Time ! FAIL ME NOT, THOU. " Yoc may break, you may ruin the vase, if you will, But the scent of the roses will linger there still!" TIIINK you because one little hour Of cloud, or dreary rain, Breaks...
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Irish melodies, songs, and poems

Thomas Moore - Folk songs, Irish - 1859 - 212 pages
...long, be my heart with such memories fill'd ! lite 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. OH! DOUBT ME NOT. Air—" Yellow Wat and the fox." OH ! doubt me not...
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Evangelical Christendom, Volumes 13-14

Christian union - 1859 - 1240 pages
...long be oar souls with these 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." And though many of our broken-off members havo gone up on high, some...
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Moore's Irish Melodies

Thomas Moore - Folk music - 1859 - 248 pages
...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 ! «^r- 7-^— i dr 9 i9 1hrr • * • r 1 *-}:-r — & 1 1 r P—...
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