 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 prunello.  An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles to H. St. John, Lord Bolingbroke, to which ... - Страница 46по Alexander Pope - 1824 - 67 странициПълен достъп - Информация за книгата
 | 1822 - 628 страници
...was so full of the 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 :... | |
 | William Scott - 1823 - 396 страници
..." What differ more," you cry, " than crown and cowl ?" I tell you friend — a wise man and a fool. You'll find, if once the monarch acts the monk, Or,...of it the fellow : The rest is all but leather or prunella. > , Boast the ])fre blood of an illustrious race, In quiet flow from Lucrece, to Lucrece... | |
 | John Collins (merchant.) - 1823 - 404 страници
...— " Do not search for a good man's pedigree." " Virtus sola nobilitat. " Virtue alone ennobles." " Worth makes the man, and want of it, the fellow ; " The rest is all but leather or prunello." 1 PoPE. Al hombre comedor, ni cosa dehcada, ni apetito en el sabor. — " An immoderate eater must... | |
 | 1834 - 442 страници
...nature and situation, whether 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 84 страници
...What differ more (you cry) than crown and cowl ? Ill tell you, friend ! a wise man and a fool. 200 You'll find, if once the monarch acts the monk, Or,...Stuck o'er with titles and hung round with strings, 205 That thou may'st be by kings, or whores of kings Boast the pure blood of an illustrious race, In... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - 1824 - 308 страници
...26 " What differ 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,...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 of kings,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 страници
..." What differ more (you cry) than crown and cowl !" I'll tell you, friend ! e wise man and a fool. hought, I surely ravished was Into Paradise, wherein my desire W prunella. Stuck o'er with titlesand hung round with strings, That thou mayst be by kings, or whores... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 422 страници
...What differ more (you cry) than crown and cowl?" 111 tell you, friend ! a wise man and a fool. 200 You'll find, if once the monarch acts the monk, Or,...of it 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 424 страници
...What differ more (you cry) than crown and cowl?" I'll tell you, friend ! a wise man and a fool. 200 You'll find, if once the monarch acts the monk, Or,...of it 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... | |
 | Voltaire - 1824 - 434 страници
...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... | |
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