 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.  Extracts, Elegant, Instructive, and Entertaining, in Poetry - Seite 210herausgegeben von - 1791Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
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 | Adam Smith - 1822 - 350 Seiten
...order to humour their fubject, they ftoop to a more familiar ftyle than ufual. When Mr. Pope fays ; Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow ,, The reft is all but leather or prunello i he means, in compliance with his fubject, to condefcend a good deal below the ftatelinefs... | |
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 | Joseph Warton - 2004 - 440 Seiten
...obedience, and their ftate of good *, 49. A better wou'd you fix ? Then give Humility a coach and fix f. Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow} The reft is all but leather or prunella J. Not one looks backward, onward {till he goes, Yet ne'er looks forward further than his nofe §4... | |
 | D. Bailin, A. Love - 2021 - 332 Seiten
...the poet are quoted in support of this proposition, summarised in Pope's well known lines, that 135 Worth makes the man, and want of it, the fellow: The reft is all but leather or prunello. Prunello is a kind of ftutf of which the gowns of clergymen are made. What is the value of... | |
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