 The leper raised not the gold from the dust : "Better to me the poor man's crust, Better the blessing of the poor, Though I turn me empty from his door ; That is no true alms which the hand can hold ; He gives nothing but worthless gold Who gives from...  Elements of Ethics - Page 170by Noah Knowles Davis - 1900 - 294 pagesFull view - About this book
 | England - 1851 - 786 pages
...dainty nature, And seemed the one blot ou the summer mom, — So he tossed him a piece of gold in scorn. The leper raised not the gold from the dust : ' Better to me the poor man's < rust, Better the blessing of the poor. Though I turn me empty from his door ; That is no true ahns... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1849 - 276 pages
...nature, And seemed the one blot on the summer morn, — So he tossed him a piece of gold in scorn. VI. The leper raised not the gold from the dust: " Better...true alms which the hand can hold ; He gives nothing but worthless gold Who gives from a sense of duty ; But he who gives a slender mite, And gives to that... | |
 | Orestes Augustus Brownson - American essays - 1849 - 566 pages
...nature, And seemed the one blot on the summer morn, — So he tossed him a piece of gold in scorn. " The leper raised not the gold from the dust: ' Better...true alms which the hand can hold ; He gives nothing but worthless gold Who gives from a sense of duty ; But he who gives a slender mite, And gives to that... | |
 | Scotland - 1851 - 856 pages
...dainty nature, And seemed the one blot on the summer mom, — So he tossed him a piece of gold in scorn. The leper raised not the gold from the dust : * Better...turn me empty from his door ; That is no true alms ichich the hand can hold." " ' Whether we look, or whether we listen, We hear life murmur, or see it... | |
 | England - 1851 - 812 pages
...morn. — So be tossed him a piece of gold in icora. The leper raised not the gold from the doit : * Better to me the poor man's crust, Better the blessing...me empty from his door; That is no true alms which tke hand сля hold.' " Sir Launfal proceeds in search of the Holy Grail ; but he finds it not He... | |
 | England - 1851 - 792 pages
...morn, — So he tossed him a piece of gold in score. The leper raised not the gold from the duat : ' Better to me the poor man's crust, Better the blessing...turn me empty from his door ; That is no true alms tekich the hand CJK hold.' " Sir Lannfal proceeds in search of the Holy Grail ; but he finds it not.... | |
 | American periodicals - 1851 - 608 pages
...And seemed the one blot on the summer morn, — So he tossed him a piece of gold in scorn. The Icpcr raised not the gold from the dust : ' Better to me the poor man's crust, Better tin; blessing of the poor, Though I turn me empty from his door ; Thai is no true alms which the hand... | |
 | Kenelm Henry Digby - Conduct of life - 1856 - 368 pages
...L. Hunt. Vision of Sir Launfal, when the proud knight had tossed him a piece of gold in scorn, — " The leper raised not the gold from the dust ; Better...true alms which the hand can hold, He gives nothing but worthless gold *." Far less effective must be any legalized or even transcendentally actuated relief,... | |
 | Sir Rutherford Alcock - Conduct of life - 1857 - 312 pages
...worth and favour to be trampled out by the iron heel of power, whether lay or fpiritual. CHARITY. " THAT is no true alms which the hand can hold ; He gives nothing but worthlefs gold Who gives from a fenfe of duty ; But he who gives a (lender mite, And gives to that... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - American poetry - 1857 - 334 pages
...nature, And seemed the one blot on the summer morn, — So he tossed him a piece of gold in scorn. VI. The leper raised not the gold from the dust : " Better...true alms which the hand can hold ; He gives nothing but worthless gold Who gives from a sense of duty ; But he who gives a slender mite, And gives to that... | |
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