 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.  New and Rare Beautiful-leaved Plants ... - Page 129by Shirley Hibberd - 1870 - 152 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Civil rights - 1795 - 432 pages
...you cry, than crown and cowl ? I'll tell you, friend; a wise man and a fool. Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow, The rest is all but leather or prunella. Stuck o'er with titles and hung round with -strings, That thou may'st be by kings, or whores... | |
 | 1797 - 614 pages
...are of no consideration, in comparison with internal qualities. 'Jfhus, " Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow; The rest is all but leather or prunello." • But in applying this favourite maxim to forms of government, he appears to have beer, led away... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1798 - 140 pages
...once the monarch acts the monk, Or, cobler-like, the parson will be drunk, Worth makes the man, and want of it, the fellow; The rest is all but leather or prunello. Stuck o'er with titles, and hung round with strings, That thou may'st be by kings, or whores of kings.... | |
 | English poetry - 1800 - 322 pages
...once the monarch acts the monk, Or, cobler-like, the parson will be drunk, Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow, The rest is all but leather or prunella. Stuck o'er with titles, and hung round with strings, That thou may'st be by kings-, or whores... | |
 | Noah Webster - Readers - 1802 - 278 pages
...once the wise roan act* the monk, Or, cobler like the parson will be drunk ; Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow ; The rest is all but leather or prunella. Stuck ov'r with titles and hung round with strings,"That thou may'st be by kings, or w —... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 232 pages
...once the monarch acts the monk, Or, cobler-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... | |
 | 1805 - 498 pages
...instances of its power are afforded by individuals of the most elevated ranks. " Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow ; " The rest is all but leather, or prunello." On the eve of printing this article, a new edition of the work, corrected and enlarged, has been published... | |
 | Poetry - 1806 - 330 pages
...once the monarch acts the monk, Or, cobler-like, the parson will be drunk, Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow, The rest is all but leather or prunella. Stuck o'er with titles, and hung round with strings, That thou may'st be by kings, or whores... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - 440 pages
...of good.* 49. A better wou'd you fix ? Then give Humility a coach and six.f Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow ; The rest is all but leather or prunella4 Not one looks backward, onward still he goes, "Yet ne'er looks forward further than his nose.§... | |
 | Juvenal - 1807 - 390 pages
...that what a man is in himself, not what his ancestors were, is the great matter to be considered. " Worth makes the man, the want of it the fellow; " The rest is all but leather or pruncllo." .Porn. END OF THE EIGHTH SATIRE. SATIRA IX. ARGUMENT. Juvenal, in this Satire, exposes and... | |
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