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Quotes About Goldsmiths

Once out of nature I shall never take My bodily form from any natural thing, But such a form as Grecian goldsmiths make
~ William Butler Yeats
Once out of nature I shall never takeMy bodily form from any natural thing,But such a form as Grecian goldsmiths makeOf hammered gold and gold enamelingTo keep a drowsy Emperor awake;Or set upon a golden bough to singTo lords and ladies of ByzantiumOf what is past, or passing, or to come.
~ William Butler Yeats
AMEL  (A'MEL)   n.s.[email, Fr.]The matter with which the variegated works are overlaid, which we call enamelled. The materials of glass melted with calcined tin, compose an undiaphanous body. This white amel is the basis of all those fine concretes that goldsmiths and artificers
~ Samuel Johnson
You are full of pretty answers. Have you not been acquainted with goldsmiths' wives and conned them out of rings?
~ William Shakespeare
Once out of nature I shall never take My bodily form from any natural thing, But such a form as Grecian goldsmiths make Of hammered gold and gold enamelling To keep a drowsy Emperor awake; Or set upon a golden bough to sing To lords and ladies of Byzantium Of what is past, or passing, or to come.
~ Unknown
Next to him, Malchijah, one of the goldsmiths, made repairs as far as the house of the temple servants and the merchants, opposite the Inspection Gate, and as far as the upper room above the corner.
~ Nehemiah 3:31
And between the upper room above the corner and the Sheep Gate, the goldsmiths and merchants made repairs.
~ Nehemiah 3:32