 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.  A manual of English literature - Page 164by Thomas Arnold - 1862Full view - About this book
 | William Scott - 1825 - 382 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 prunello. Boast the pure blood of an illustrious race, In quiet flow from Lucrece. to Lucrece : But... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1825 - 536 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 prunells. Stuck o'er with t it 1rs, and hung round with strings, That thon may'st be by kings, or whores... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 460 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 prunello. Stuck o'er with titles, and hung round with strings; That thou mayst be by kings, or whores... | |
 | Thomas Williams (Calvinist preacher) - 1825 - 972 pages
...or riches on the other, will balance the want of this. So /'-/<. sayi, " Worth makes the man, an-l pranpllo." But even this respectability should not be the ultimata object of the preacher : he " must... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1826 - 562 pages
...a fool. You'll find, if once the monareh 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. Essay on Man. with wonder-workers, and persecutors, and traitors. . What, Sir, are we to... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1826 - 464 pages
...characters, and that their assumed pretensions did no more than justice to their real merits. Dress makes the man, and want of it the fellow : The rest is all but leather and prunella. I confess, however, that I admire this look of a gentleman, more when it rises from the... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1826 - 464 pages
...charactersj and that their assumed pretensions did no more than justice to their real merits. Dress makes the man, and want of it the fellow: The rest is all but leather and prunella. I confess, however, that I admire this look of a gentleman, more when it rises from the... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1826 - 462 pages
...characters, and that their assumed pretensions did no more than justice to their real merits. Dress makes the man, and want of it the fellow : The rest is all but leather and prunella. I confess, however, that I admire this look of a gentleman, more when it rises from the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1828 - 264 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. Stuck o'er with titles and hung round with stringy, That thou may'st be by kings, or whores of kings.... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 804 pages
...prescribed. PRUNEL'LO, ns Barb. Lat. prunella. A kind of stuff of which clergymen s gowns are made. Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow ; The rest is all but leather or pnmello. Pope. PRUNING, in gardening and agriculture, is the lopping off the superfluous branches of... | |
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