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" 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 253
1793
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The British anthology; or, Poetical library, Volumes 1-2

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...
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Gesta Romanorum, Or, Entertaining Moral Stories: Invented by the ..., Volume 1

Charles Swan - Latin prose literature, Medieval and modern - 1824 - 566 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...
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Gesta Romanorum: Or, Entertaining Moral Stories ... Translated ..., Volume 1

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...
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Gesta Romanorum, Or, Entertaining Moral Stories: Invented by the ..., Volume 1

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...
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Gesta Romanorum, or, Entertaining moral stories tr. with ..., Volume 1

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...
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An Essay on the Inventions and Customs of Both Ancients and Moderns in the ...

Samuel Morewood - Alcoholism - 1824 - 404 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...
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Sequel to the English Reader: Or, Elegant Selections in Prose and Poetry ...

Lindley Murray - Elocution - 1825 - 310 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...
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Lessons in Elocution, Or, A Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse: For the ...

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...
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Select Poets of Great Britain: To which are Prefixed, Criticial Notices of ...

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...
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The Cottager's monthly visitor, Volume 7

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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