 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
 | Jesse Torrey - Ethics - 1824 - 308 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...want of it the fellow: The rest is all but leather or prunello. 27 Stuck o'er with titles and hung round with strings, That thou may'st be by kings, or slaves... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1824 - 80 pages
...friend ! a wise man and a fool. 300 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, 305 That thou may'st be by kings, or... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1824 - 84 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... | |
 | Voltaire - Philosophy - 1824 - 434 pages
...ULTRA-CREPIDARIUS ; a Satire on 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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...you, friend ! a wise man and a fool. You'll find, if onee the monareh aets the monk, Or, eobbler-like, the parson will be drunk, Worth makes the man, and...fellow : The rest is all but leather or prunella. Stuek o'er with titles and hung round with strings, That thou mayst be by kings, or whores of kings... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poetry - 1963 - 884 pages
...cry) than crown and cowl ?' I'll tell you, friend, A Wise man and a Fool. 200 You'l! find, if once the monarch acts the monk, Or, cobler-like, the parson...the fellow; The rest is all but leather or prunella. Stuck o'er with titles and hung round with strings, 205 That thou may'st be by kings, or whores of... | |
 | English literature - 1816 - 592 pages
...matter of common occurrence, into the vulgar herd ; that, in short, under this enlightened government, ' Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow, The rest is all but leather or prunella." We are cautioned, however, at the same time, not to regard the literary qualifications, which pave... | |
 | Salmon Portland Chase - Biography & Autobiography - 1993 - 454 pages
...Morton was quoting loosely from the fourth epistle of Alexander Pope's Essay on Man (1734), lines 204-5: "Worth makes the man, and want of it, the fellow: The rest is all but leather or prunella." Congressional Globe, 4Oth Cong., zd sess., 1867-68, 3871-72; New York Times, July 3, 1868. TO WILLIAM... | |
 | Anthony Trollope - Fiction - 1998 - 996 pages
...cobbler ('leather') is contrasted to the parson ('prunella' — the material of the clerical gown): Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow, The rest is all but leather and prunella. Alpine Club: the Alpine Club was founded in London in 1857. 360 and parallelogrammatic... | |
 | Benjamin W. Redekop - History - 2000 - 282 pages
...assessed in view of this possibility of earning merit in every estate (Stand), in every occupation: 'Worth makes the Man and want of it the Fellow. / The rest is all but Leather or Prunella.' "54 It is clear that Abbt's perspective was attuned to the traditional social structure; the point... | |
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