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 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1837 - 438 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... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1837
...bowl, And feels compassion touch his grateful soul. Thus artists melt the sullen ore of lead, W7ith 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... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1837 - 448 pages
...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, t And loose from dross the silver runs below. The poor fond parent, humbled in the dust, Now owns in... | |
 | Jesse Olney - Readers - 1838 - 344 pages
...views the bowl. And feels compassion touch his churlish 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. 29. " Long had our pious friend in virtue trod, But now the... | |
 | Samuel Morewood - Alcoholic beverages - 1838 - 768 pages
...practice, which is thus beautifully expressed by Parnell : — 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 free from dross the silver runs below. In like'manner, Caligula, according... | |
 | Conduct of life - 1855 - 892 pages
...better feelings which have been covered and smothered. " 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." We must study to do this. It is a delicate duty. We may do... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1856 - 134 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 - 1856 - 754 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 belovt-. 16, omaS "P.atntU. 217 Sri*t bet $o(bftl'ge I'ngtl nun baŤ... | |
 | Joseph Benson - 1856 - 808 pages
...injured to overcome them, by returning good for evil. " 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." That the expression is used here in this sense, seems evident... | |
 | John Seely Hart - Readers - 1857 - 394 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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