 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
 | John Brown - Bible - 1857 - 662 pages
...mind, love takes the place of suspicion and hatred. " So artists melt the stubborn ore of lead, By heaping coals of fire upon its head, In the kind warmth the metal learns to glow. And, loose from dross, the silver runs below." x This mode of interpretation is in perfect conformity with... | |
 | John Cumming - 1857 - 414 pages
...elegantly paraphrased by one of our own poets : — ' Thus artists melt the sullen ore of lead, By heaping coals of fire upon its head ; 'In the kind warmth the metal learns to glow, And pure from dross the silver runs below." — PARNELL. " The effect produced upon us by the mercies of... | |
 | John Brown - Bible - 1857 - 702 pages
...mind, love takes the place of suspicion and hatred. " So artists melt the stubborn ore of lead, By heaping coals of fire upon its head, In the kind warmth the metal learns to glow, And, loose from dross, the silver runs below." 1 This mode of interpretation is in perfect conformity with... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 466 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... | |
 | England - 1860 - 668 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 heart from God (Child of his age) ; for him ho lived in pain, And measured back his... | |
 | England - 1860 - 856 pages
...kind. Conscious of wanting- worth, he views *¿c bowl, Ала feels compassion touch his gntefol soul. Long had our pious friend in virtue trod, But now the child half-weaned bis tan from God (Child of his age); for him he lived in para, And measured back his steps... | |
 | George Washington Doane (bp. of New Jersey.) - 1861 - 608 pages
...soften him, into tenderness, and melt him, into love. " So artists melt the sullen ore of lead, By heaping coals of fire upon its head : In the kind warmth, the metal learns to glow, And, pure from dross, the silver runs below." And, then, the practical conclusion, perfect in Christian... | |
 | English poets - 1862 - 626 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... | |
 | Playtime - 1863 - 436 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 Mend in virtue trod, But now the child... | |
 | English poems - 1863 - 364 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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