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" Friendship is a vase which, when it is flawed by heat or violence or accident, may as well be broken at once ; it can never be trusted after. The more graceful and ornamental it was, the more clearly do we discern the hopelessness of restoring it to its... "
Literature, its rise, progress, fortunes and advantages, an address - Page 46
by Charles Spence (of Liverpool.) - 1863
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The New Monthly Belle Assemblée, Volumes 40-41

738 pages
...; and which pains not the most susceptible being in creatiou. — Literary Journal. FRIENDSHIP. — Friendship is a vase which, when it is flawed by heat,...fractured, may be cemented again ; precious ones never. — Walter Savage Lander. HEATHENISH IN LONDON. — I have been comparing notes between the condition...
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The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 8

1846 - 608 pages
...never has been chipt or dimmed even here, and never shall be. ' Sidney. Let me take up your metaphor. Friendship is a vase which, when it is flawed by heat...fractured, may be cemented again; precious ones, never.' • There is another fine interpolation on Chivalry, and on those subtle compensations for supposed...
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Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 8

John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1846 - 620 pages
...never has been chipt or dimmed even here, and never shall be. ' Sidney. Let me take up your metaphor. Friendship is a vase which, when it is flawed by heat...fractured, may be cemented again; precious ones, never.' There is another fine interpolation on Chivalry, and on those subtle compensations for supposed failure...
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The Edinburgh Review, Volume 50; Volume 83

1846 - 674 pages
...never has been chipt or dimmed even here, and never shall be. ' Sidney. Let me take up your metaphor. Friendship is a vase which, when it is flawed by heat...fractured, may be cemented again ; precious ones, never.' There is another fine interpolation on Chivalry, and on those subtle compensations for supposed failure...
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The Works of Walter Savage Landor, Volume 1

Walter Savage Landor - 1846 - 618 pages
...never has been chipt or dimmed even here, and never shall be. Sidney. Let me take up your metaphor. Friendship is a vase which, when it is flawed by heat...fractured, may be cemented again; precious ones, never. And now, Greville, seat yourself under this oak ; since, if you had hungered or thirsted from your...
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The works of Walter Savage Landor [ed. by J. Forster]., Volumes 1-2

Walter Savage Landor - 1846 - 618 pages
...never has been chipt or dimmed even here, and never shall be. Sidney. Let me take up your metaphor. Friendship is a vase which, when it is flawed by heat...restoring it to its former state. Coarse stones, if they arc fractured, may be cemented again ; precious ones, never. And now, Greville, seat yourself under...
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The Works of Walter Savage Landor, Volume 1

Walter Savage Landor - 1846 - 620 pages
...chipt or dimmed even here, and never shall be. Sidney. Let me take up your metaphor. Friendship ¡8 a vase which, when it is flawed by heat or violence...do we discern the hopelessness of restoring it to ita former state. Coarse stones, if they arc fractured, may be cemented again; precious onee, never....
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The British Controversialist and Impartial Inquirer, Volume 6

1855 - 494 pages
...where eternal breakers roll, For all to aee, hut no man to approach." — WS Landor, (Island 3rd.) " Friendship is a vase which, when it is flawed by heat,...as well be broken at once ; it can never be trusted aller. The more graceful and ornamental it was, the more clearly do we discern the hopelessness of...
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The Works of Walter Savage Landor...

Walter Savage Landor - 1853 - 618 pages
...never has been chipt or dimmed even here, and never shall be. Kidney. Let me take up your metaphor. Friendship is a vase which, when it is flawed by heat...hopelessness of restoring it to its former state. Coarse B( ones, if I hey are fractured, may be cemented again ; precious ones, never. And now, Grcville, seat...
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The Works of Walter Savage Landor...

Walter Savage Landor - 1853 - 632 pages
...never has been ehipt or dimmed even here, and never shall be. Sidney, bet me take up your metaphor. Friendship is a vase which, when it is flawed by heat...The more graceful and ornamental it was, the more clearlv do we discern the hopelessness of restoring it to firookc. In truth I did ; for no otherwise...
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