 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.  Letters on Literature, Taste, and Composition: Addressed to His Son - Page 166by George Gregory - 1808Full view - About this book
 | Alexander Pope - Human beings - 1820 - 80 pages
...more (you cry) than crown and cowl!" I'll tell you friend, a wise man and a fool. You'll find, if once the monarch acts the monk, Or, cobler-like, the parson...want of it the fellow; The rest is all but leather er prunella. Stuck o'er with titles and hung round with strings, T hat thou mayst be by kings or whores... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1820 - 434 pages
...friend — a wise man aad a fool. Yuu'll find, if once the monarch acts the monk, Or. cobler like, the parson will be drunk ; Worth makes the man, and...the fellow; The rest is all but leather or prunella. Boast the pure blood of an illustrious race, In quiet flow from Lucrece to Lucrece : But by your father's... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1819 - 366 pages
...you friend— a wise man and a fool. You'll find, if once the monarch acts the monk, Or, cobler like, the parson will be drunk ; Worth makes the man, and...fellow ; The rest is all but. leather or prunella. Boast the pure blood of an illustrious race, In quiet flow from Lucrece, to Lucrece : But by your father's... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...you, friend ! a wise man and a fool. You'll find, if once the monarch acts the monk, Or, cobbler-like, rushing winds ; To suit her sounding cadence to the...is her theme, her numbers wildly great : Thrice hap Stuck o'er with titles, and hung round with strings, That thou mayst be by kings, or whores of kings.... | |
 | William Scott - Children's stories - 1820 - 398 pages
...fiad, if once the monarch acts the monk, Or, cobler like, the parson will get drunk ; Worth makes 'he man, and want of it the fellow^ The rest is all but leather or prunella. Boast the pure Mood of an illustrious race, In q«:et flow from Lucrece to Lucrece: But by yout father's... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Human beings - 1821 - 268 pages
...habille ou de pourpre ou de bure. Un traitant, chargé d'or, est fier de sa parure ; You'll find, if once the monarch acts the monk, Or, cobler-like, the parson...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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Human beings - 1821 - 252 pages
...cry ) than crown and cowl? » l'll tell you , friend ; a wise man and a fool. You'll find , if once the monarch acts the monk , Or , cobler-like , the...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... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 402 pages
...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...fellow ; The rest is all but leather or prunella. Stuck o'er with titles, and hung round with stnngs, That thou mayst be by kings, or whores of kings.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1821 - 86 pages
...friend, a wise man and a 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...of it the fellow ; The rest is all but leather, or prunello. Stuck o'er with titles, and 'hung round with strings, 205 That thou may'st be by kings, or... | |
 | Provinciaal Utrechts genootschap van kunsten en wetenschappen - 1821 - 858 pages
...mogelijk te vermommen , alles wat kunst en wetenfchap heet , een' onveranderlijken afkeer gezworen hebben! Worth makes the Man and want of it the fellow. The rest is all but leather or Prunetta. POPE esfay on Men. OVKR DE WEELDE BIJ DE INWONEREN DER VEREENIGDE NEDERLANDEN, EN DERZELVER... | |
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