 | Medicine - 1855 - 676 pages
...perhaps the perfume of the name may, for years to come, cling to " the degenerate few."* " Like the vase in which roses have once been distill'd — You may...the scent of the roses will hang round it still." • Vide p. 633 of last number. ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. CLINICAL LECTURES ON SURGERY NOW IN COURSE... | |
 | William Hogan - 1853 - 670 pages
...fragments may be found which may be useful to posterity. Yes, as Ihe poet beautifully expresses it, * You may break — you may ruin the vase, if you will,...the scent of the roses will hang round it still." The failure of any system, as I have observed, is not a sufficient argument against its practicability,... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - American periodicals - 1853 - 606 pages
...be felt in the influence it exercised over the intellectual development of the eighteenth century. " You may break, you may ruin the vase if you will,...But the scent of the roses will hang round it still !" Of the many phases in which he is presented to us, poet, musician, historian, biographer, there... | |
 | United States. 91st Congress, 1st session, 1969 - 1970 - 314 pages
...memories filled, 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. It is hard for us to visualize a US Senate without the presence of the remarkable Senator from Illinois,... | |
 | Minnesota. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1888 - 624 pages
...behind him. " 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. " His body is gone; the vase is broken which contained these delightful qualities; but the sweet savor... | |
 | Iowa State Bar Association - Bar associations - 1896 - 1030 pages
...will sing with the sweet poet Moore: "Long, long be my heart with sweet 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." TRUSTS. BY JOHN... | |
 | Rosaceae - 1927 - 332 pages
...under canvas. Nevertheless, the fragrance was by no means subdued. " You may break, you may shatter the vase, if you will, But the scent of the Roses will hang round it still." Quite a number of exhibitors did not bring up their fragrant Roses in competition for the Daily Mail... | |
 | Government publications - 1986 - 140 pages
...memories filled! 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. Mr. TRIBLE. Mr. President, I rise to join my colleagues in paying our respects to our departed friend... | |
 | Teresa Medeiros - Fiction - 1993 - 411 pages
...she, lad?" Pugsley's only reply was an enigmatic whimper. PART THREE You may break, you may shatter the vase, if you will, But the scent of the roses will hang round it still. — Sir Thomas Moore But ne'er the rose without the thorn. — Robert Herrick Flowers of all hue, and... | |
 | Marc Chenetier - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 352 pages
...in Three Acts served as a program for these revelatory demolitions: "You may break, you may shatter the vase, if you will. / But the scent of the roses will hang round it still."22 Parody and pastiche are here allied to a bashing of biographical facts. Hemingway had four... | |
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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. 
