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" Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow : The rest is all but leather and prunella. "
"Noblesse Oblige;": An English Story of To-day - Page 243
by Sarah Tytler - 1871 - 604 pages
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A New and Literal Translation of Juvenal and Persius: With ..., Volume 1

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...
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The New Monthly Magazine and Humorist

English literature - 1846 - 526 pages
...however, I do not entirely ascribe to the clothes which I wore, for as Hamlet very justly says, — Worth makes the man, the want of it the fellow, The rest is nought but leather and prunella, When I entered the salon, I found Madame de Vaudet seated before a...
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The Liberal: Verse and Prose from the South, Volumes 1-2

1822 - 628 pages
...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 : — " The only...
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The Lady's Magazine and Museum of the Belles-lettres, Fine Arts ..., Volume 4

English literature - 1834 - 442 pages
...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 of all that is...
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A Philosophical Dictionary: From the French, Volume 2

Voltaire - Philosophy - 1824 - 434 pages
...William Gifford. By LEIGH HUNT. With Notes, containing Proofs and Illustrations. Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow, The rest is all but leather and prunella. — POPE. Assume a barbarous tyranny, to handle The Muses worse than Ostrogoth or Vandal ; Make them...
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The Plain Speaker: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things : in Two Volumes, Volume 2

William Hazlitt - Rationalism - 1826 - 462 pages
...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 levelof common...
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The Plain Speaker: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things, Volume 1

William Hazlitt - 1826 - 464 pages
...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 level of common...
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The Plain Speaker: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things, Volume 2

William Hazlitt - Aesthetics - 1826 - 464 pages
...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 level of common...
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The guards, Volume 1

Guards - 1827 - 294 pages
...Guard-dinner;—" Bon appetit, mes amis.'" THE GUARDS. 75 CHAPTER IV. DISAPPOINTMENT. HUMILIATION.—RETURN HOME. " Worth makes the man, the want of it the fellow; The rest is nought but leather and prunella." POPE. HERBERT GREBNLAW was kindly received by his brother officers,...
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A new and literal translation of Juvenal and Persius; with notes by M. Madan ...

Juvenal - 1829 - 334 pages
...shewing, 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 prunella. PoPE. SAT. VIII. SÁTIRA IX. ARGUMENT. Juvenal, in this Satire, exposes and vensures the...
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