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 | University of Oxford - 1869 - 314 pages
...the bowl And feels compassion touch his grateful soul. 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 loose from dross the silver runs below." Dunlop traces the story to the 18th Sura of the Koran, where... | |
 | John Wesley - 1869 - 714 pages
...head — Tlmt part which is most sensible : "So artists melt the sullen ore of lead, By heaping conls ( ސ pure from dross the Ğliver runs СПАГ. XIII. v. 1. Let every soul be subject to the supreme powers... | |
 | Charlotte Maria Tucker - 1869 - 162 pages
...upon a selfish, niggardly nature ? — " Thus artists melt the sullen ore of lead By heaping coals uf fire upon its head : In the kind warmth the metal learns to glow, And, free from dross, the silver runs below." But Meredith had found nothing changed in Caleb except his... | |
 | English poems - 1870 - 722 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... | |
 | Thomas Pope (canon of Castleknock.) - Vatican Council - 1871 - 368 pages
...superiority, and frequently employ ourselves in its exercise. " 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." Though we are quite convinced of the existence of taste—though... | |
 | George Warburton Weldon - Analogy (Religion) - 1871 - 188 pages
...aloof, or, it may be, " passing by on the other side." " 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," CHAPTER XVII. ANALOGY BETWEEN THE COURSE OF NATURE AND REVEALED... | |
 | A. L. O. E. - 1871 - 158 pages
...sudden prosperity upon a selfish, niggardly nature ? — " Thus artists melt the sullfin ore of lead By heaping coals of fire upon its head : In the kind warmth the metal learns to glow, And, free from drosa, the silver runs below." But Meredith had found nothing changed in Caleb except his... | |
 | A. L. O. E. - 1871 - 152 pages
...upon a selfish, niggardly nature ? — " Thus artists melt the sullen ore of lead By heaping coals uf fire upon its head : In the kind warmth the metal learns to glow. And, free from dross, the silver runs below." But Meredith had found nothing changed in Caleb except his... | |
 | Thomas Wright - Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern) - 1872 - 568 pages
...of fire upon his 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- weaned his heart from God ; (Child of his age) for him he liv'd in pain, And measur'd back his steps... | |
 | English poetry - 1873 - 390 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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