 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
 | British anthology - 1824 - 460 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... | |
 | Charles Swan - Latin prose literature, Medieval and modern - 1824 - 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... | |
 | Wynnard Hooper - Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern) - 1824 - 552 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... | |
 | Charles Swan - Latin prose literature, Medieval and modern - 1824 - 596 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... | |
 | Romani - 1824 - 548 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... | |
 | Samuel Morewood - Alcoholic beverage industry - 1824 - 400 pages
...which is thus beautifully expressed by one of our poets : So artists melt the sullen ore of lead, By heaping coals of fire upon its head ; In the kind warmth the metals learn to glow, And pure from dross the silver runs below. In like manner Caligula, according... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Elocution - 1825 - 316 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 cbild... | |
 | William Scott - Diccion - 1825 - 382 pages
...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 .wean'd bis heart from God (Child of his age) for him ho liv'd in pain. And measur'd back his steps te earth... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...feels eompassion toueh his grateful soul. Thus artists melt the sullen ore of lead, With heaping eoals oeturnal sport, Dark-veil'd Cotytto, t' whom the seeret flame Of midnigh loose from dross the silver runs below. Long had our pious friend in virtue trod, But now the ehild... | |
 | 1827 - 590 pages
...feels compassion touch his grateful soul. Thus artists melt the sullen oro of lead, With heaping.coala of fire upon its head*; In the kind warmth the metal learns to glow, . . And, loose from dross, the silver melts below. " Ixing had our pious friend in virtue trod, But now the... | |
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