 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...its head ; In the kind warmth the metal learns to glow, And loose from dross the silver runs below. " nay,) Will send for all my kindred, all my friend*, To fetch him liis heart from God ; (Child of his age) for him he liv'd in pain, And measur'd back his steps to Earth... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - Memory - 1820 - 160 pages
...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 weaned his heart from God ; (Child of his age) for him he lived in pain, And measured back his... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1819 - 366 pages
...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 his heart from God ; (Child of bis age) for him he Hv'd in pain. And measur'd back his... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 346 pages
...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...; (Child of his age) for him he liv'd in pain, And measur'd back his steps to Earth again. To what excesses had his dotage run? But God, to save the father,... | |
 | English poetry - 1821 - 270 pages
...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...God; (Child of his age) for him he liv'd in pain, And measur'd back his steps to earth again. To what excesses had his dotage run ! But God, to save the... | |
 | English poetry - 1821 - 282 pages
...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... | |
 | John Bowdler - Hymns, English - 1821 - 510 pages
...; " 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 his heart from GOD: p3 .. L •' Child of his age, for him he liv'd in pain, • • And... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 272 pages
...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...his heart from God; (Child of his age) for him he lived in pain, And measured back his steps to earth again. To what excesses had his dotage run! But... | |
 | Arminianism - 1835 - 1024 pages
...draw her supreme love from her God ; and that the lines of Parnell were not appropriate? — " Ixmg had our pious friend in virtue trod, But now the child...his heart from God ; Child of his age, for him he lived in pain, And measured back his steps to earth again. To what excesses had his dotage run, But... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1823 - 396 pages
...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 v/ean'd his heart from God t (ChUd of his age) for him he liv'd in pain, And measured back his... | |
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Conscious of wanting worth, he 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... 
