 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
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1820 - 420 pages
...views the bowl And feels compassion touch his grateful soul. Thus artist's melt the sullen oie of lead, With heaping coals of fire upon its head : In the kind warmth the metal learns to glow, Ard loose from dross, the silver runs below. Long had our pious friend in vir'.ue trod, But now the... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1820 - 432 pages
...views the bowl And feeis 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, Ard loose from dross, the silver runs below. Long had our pious friend in virtue trod, But now the... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...of fire upon its head ; In the kind warmth the metal learns to glow, And loose from dross the silver ight to say us nay,) Will send for all my kindred, all my friend*, To fet half-wean'd liis heart from God ; (Child of his age) for him he liv'd in pain, And measur'd back his... | |
 | John Bowdler - Hymns, English - 1821 - 520 pages
...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... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 346 pages
...views the bowl, And feels compassion touch his grateful soul. Tims 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... | |
 | English poetry - 1821 - 259 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... | |
 | English poetry - 1821 - 282 pages
...fire upon its head; In the kiud 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-weau'd his heart from God ; (Child of his age) for him he Hv'd in pain, And measur'd back his... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 272 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 - 1823 - 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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...views the bowl, And feels compassion touch his grateful soul. Thus artists melt the sullen ore of lead. loose from dross the silver runs below. Long had our pious friend in virtue trod, But now the child... | |
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