 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
 | Alexander Pope - 1808 - 334 Seiten
...a wise man and-a fool. You'll find, 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 prnnello. Stuck o'er with title*,and hung round withstrings ; That thou... | |
 | George Gregory - 1808 - 352 Seiten
...man and a fool. 20O " You'll find, if pnce 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, "... | |
 | Noah Webster - 1809 - 202 Seiten
...a wise man and a fool. You'll find if once the wise man acts the monk, Or, eobler like, the parson will be drunk ; Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow ; The rest is all but leather or prunella. Go, if your ancient, but ignoble blood, Has crept through scoundrels... | |
 | John Sabine - 1810 - 308 Seiten
...a wise man and a fool. You'll find, 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... | |
 | Thomas Janes - 1810 - 336 Seiten
...a wise man and a fool. You'll find, 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 546 Seiten
...wise man and a fool. 200 You'll find, 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... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1811 - 662 Seiten
...order to humour their fubje6l, 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 prunella ; he means, in compliance with his fubjecl, to condefcend a good deal below the ftatelinefs of his... | |
 | William Butler - 1811 - 548 Seiten
...that mankind will at length bear their willing teftimcny to the truth of Pope's well-known lines, that Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow , The reft is all but leather or prunello *. Prunello is a kind of fluff, of which the gowns of cler. gyrnen are made. What is the value... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1811 - 596 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 ; he means, in compliance with his fubject, to condefcend a good deal below the ftatelinefs... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 348 Seiten
...wise man and a fool. 200 You'll find, 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... | |
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