 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.  Vagaries Vindicated, Or, Hypocritick Hypercriticks: A Poem, Address'd to the ... - Pagina 29di George Colman - 1813 - 60 pagineVisualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
 | 1795 - 432 pagine
...more,, 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 of kings,... | |
 | 1797 - 614 pagine
...appearance 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,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1798 - 140 pagine
...if 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... | |
 | 1800 - 322 pagine
...if 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 of kings;... | |
 | Noah Webster - 1802 - 278 pagine
...if 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 — s of Kings... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 232 pagine
...if 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 whores of... | |
 | Noah Webster - 1804 - 254 pagine
...if once the wise man acts the monk, Or cobler-like, the parson will be drunk ; Werth makes th6 man, and want of it the fellow* . . The rest is all but leather of prunella. Stuck o'er with titles and hung round with strings, That thou mayst be by kings ; or ws... | |
 | 1805 - 498 pagine
...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,... | |
 | 1806 - 330 pagine
...if 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 of kings... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - 464 pagine
...— — — A better wou'd you fix ? Then give Humility a coach and six.f J. • Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow ; The rest is all but leather or prunella.}; Not one looks backward, onward still he goes, Yet ne'er looks forward further than his nose.§ To sigh... | |
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