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
| University of Calcutta - 1911 - 760 Seiten
...a wise man and a fool. You'll find, if once the monarch acts the monk, Or, cobber-like, the parson will be drunk, Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow : The rest is all but leather or prunella. (e) If Anna's happy reign you praise. Pray not a word of halcyon... | |
| Episcopal Church. General Convention. Commission on archives - 1911 - 626 Seiten
...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." Jacob Schweighauser Otto. For notice see page 195. Alexander... | |
| Ernest Bernbaum - 1918 - 412 Seiten
...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. God loves from whole to parts ; but human soul Must rise from... | |
| 1924 - 296 Seiten
...wise man and a fool. You '11 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. . . . Pope. 70* a//1 £Man 'sa £Man for a that Is there for honest... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1926 - 306 Seiten
...wise man and a Fool. 200 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. Stuck o'er with titles and hung round with strings, 205 That thou... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1963 - 884 Seiten
...Wise man and a Fool. 200 You'l! 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, 205 That thou... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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