 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 368 pages
...drunk. Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow ; The rest is all but leather or prunella. 204 Stuck o'er with titles, and hung round with strings,...illustrious race, In quiet flow from Lucrece to Lucrece : VARIATIONS. Ver. 207. Boast the pure blood, &c.] In the MS. thus, The richest blood, right-honourably... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 370 pages
...fool. 200 You'll find, if once the monarch acts the monk, Or, cobbler-like, the parson will be drunk, Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow ; The rest is all but leather or prunella. 204 Stuck o'er with titles, and hung round with strings, That thou mayst be by kings, or whores of... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 372 pages
...fool. 200 You'll find, if once the monarch acts the monk, Or, cobbler-like, the parson will be drunk. Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow ; The rest is all but leather or prunella. 204 Stuck o'er with titles, and hung round with strings, That thou mayst be by kings, or whores of... | |
 | Classical poetry - 1822 - 284 pages
...a fool. You'll find, if once the monarch acts the monk, Or, cobbler-like, the parson will be drunk, Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow; The rest is all but leather or prunello. [strings; But by your fathers' worth if your's you rate, Count me those only who were good... | |
 | 1822 - 628 pages
...was so full of the opposite conviction, that he has even written a bad couplet to express it :— " Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow : The rest is all but leather and prunella." Those lines in Cowpcr also must sound very puerile or oldfashioned to courtly ears :... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1823 - 396 pages
...fool. You'll find, if once the monarch acts the monk, Or, cobbler-like, the parson will be drunk ; Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow : The rest is all but leather or prunella. > , Boast the ])fre blood of an illustrious race, In quiet flow from Lucrece, to Lucrece : But by your... | |
 | John Collins (merchant.) - Proverbs, Spanish - 1823 - 404 pages
...— " Do not search for a good man's pedigree." " Virtus sola nobilitat. " Virtue alone ennobles." " Worth makes the man, and want of it, the fellow ; " The rest is all but leather or prunello." 1 PoPE. Al hombre comedor, ni cosa dehcada, ni apetito en el sabor. — " An immoderate... | |
 | English literature - 1834 - 442 pages
...nature and situation, whether they are countesses or country maidens, lords or leather cutters. • • Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow, " The rest is all but leather and prunella." Where right principles have been acted upon, when has frail humanity exhibited more... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 422 pages
...fool. 200 You'll find, if once the monarch acts the monk, Or, cobbler-like, the parson will be drunk, Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow ; The...Stuck o'er with titles, and hung round with strings, 205 That thou may'st be by kings, or whores of kings ; COMMENTARY. Ver. 205. Stuck o'er with titles,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English literature - 1824 - 424 pages
...fool. 200 You'll find, if once the monarch acts the monk, Or, cobbler-like, the parson will be drunk, Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow ; The...Stuck o'er with titles, and hung round with strings, 205 That thou may'st be by kings, or whores of kings ; COMMENTARY. Ver. 205. Stuck o'er with titles,... | |
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I'll tell you, friend! a wise man and a fool. You'll find, if once the monarch acts the monk Or, cobbler-like, the parson will be drunk, Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow, The rest is all but leather or prunella. 
