 | Thomas Carlyle - 2002 - 1258 pagine
...'leather' of gig-straps, and 'prunella' of gig-lining, first makes it go: Pope, "Essay on Man" (1733): "Worth makes the man, and want of it, the fellow; /The rest is all but leather or prunella" (4.203-204). 130.3. his hour is coming: Probably a reference to the passage above that... | |
 | Jonathan Benthall - 2002 - 390 pagine
...labour stinks. We know for radical reform he hopes, Else how distinguish Goodv's line from Pope's? 'Worth makes the man, and want of it, the fellow; The rest is all but leather or prunella'.2 But hold! here's no defence ot rank and caste; In Goody's scheme, the first shall be... | |
 | Quintard Taylor, Shirley Ann Wilson Moore - 2003 - 412 pagine
...will visit the colored Yanktonians some fine day, I close with a line . . . from the brilliant Pope: "Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow; The rest is all but leather and prunella." A 'Black 'Woman on the Montana frontier From 1888 to 1931 Sarah Gammon Bickford owned and... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 2005 - 978 pagine
...(see the allusion to Pope, next note). 285.32-33. leather and prunella: Pope, "Essay on Man" (1733): "Worth makes the man, and want of it, the fellow; / The rest is all but leather or prunella" (4.203-204). 285.34-35. Caliban shall obey him, or become not Caliban but a cramp: A paraphrase... | |
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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. 
