 Thus artists melt the sullen ore of lead, With heaping coals of fire upon its head ; In the kind warmth the metal learns to glow, And, loose from dross, the silver runs below.  The english anthology. - Page 2531793Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Janes - 1810 - 336 pages
...views the bowl, And feels compassion touch his grateful soul. Thus artists melt the sullen ore of lead, With heaping coals of fire upon its head ; In the kind warmth the metal learns to glow, And, loose from dross, the silver runs below. Long had our pious friend in virtue trod, But now the child.half... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 664 pages
...compassion touch his grateful soul. Thus artists melt the sullen ore of lead, \Vith heaping coals of flre upon its head; In the kind warmth the metal learns to glow, And loose from dross the silver runs below. " Long had our pious friend in virtue trod, But now the child... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1814 - 424 pages
...the bowl, And feels compassion touch his grateful soul. Thus artist's melt the sullen ore of lead, With heaping coals of fire upon its head : In the kind warmth the metal learns to glow, And loose from dross, the silver runs below. Long had our pious friend in virtue trod, But now the child... | |
 | 1816 - 300 pages
...views the bowl, And feels compassion touch his grateful soul. Thus artists melt the sullen ore of lead, With heaping coals of fire upon its head ; In the kind warmth the metal learns to glow, And loose from dross the silver runs below. " Long had our piouuigend in virtue trod, But now the child... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Authors - 1816 - 298 pages
...the bowl, And feels comp.tffion touch his grateful foul ; Thus artifts melt the fullen ore of leid, With heaping coals of fire upon its head ; In the kind warmth the metal learns to plow, And, loofe from drofs, the filver runs below. P I •' Long had our pious friend in virtue trod... | |
 | English poetry - 1817 - 314 pages
...views the bowl, And feels compassion touch his grateful soul. Thus artists melt the sullen ore of lead, With heaping coals of fire upon its head; In the kind warmth the metal learns to glow, And loose from dross, the silver runs below. ' Long had our pious friend in virtue trod, But now the child... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1817 - 416 pages
...views the bowl, And feels compassion touch his grateful soul. Thus artists melt the sullen ore of lead, "With heaping coals of fire upon its head : In the kind warmth the metal learns to glow,And loose from dross, the silver runs below. Long had onr pious friend in virtue trod, But now... | |
 | Scotland - 1860 - 796 pages
...kind. Conscious of wanting worth, he views the bowl, And feels compassion touch his grateful soul. Long had our pious friend in virtue trod, But now the child half-weaned his h£art from God (Child of his ape) ; for him he lived in pain, And measured back his... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - Memory - 1820 - 160 pages
...views the bowl. And feels compassion touch his grateful soul. Thus artists melt the sullen ore of lead, With heaping coals of fire upon its head ; In the kind warmth the metal learns to glow, And loose from dross, the silver runs below. Long had our pious friend in virtue trod, But now the child... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1819 - 366 pages
...views the bowl, And feels compassion touch his grateful soul. Thus artists melt the sullen ore of lead, With heaping coals of fire upon its head : In the kind warmth, the metal learns to glow, • And loose from dross, the silver runs below. Long had our pious friend in virtue trod, But now. the child... | |
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