 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.  The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. in Six Volumes Complete: Imitations, moral ... - Page 91by Alexander Pope - 1787Full view - About this book
 | 1792 - 640 pages
...mind,) but as having contributed to difplay his virtues, and, ofcourfe, to exalt hi« cha» rafter: " Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow ; The reft is all but leather and prunella." ufo Art. 68. f'ir.Hifi.-e Landavcnfcs : Or, Striftures on the BifllOp of Landaff's late... | |
 | James Roach - English poetry - 1793 - 274 pages
...you, friend ; a wife man and a fool. You'll find, if once the monarch arts the monk, Or, cobler-like, the parfon will be drunk, Worth makes the man, and want of it, the fellow; Ihereil is all but leather and prunello. Sluck Stuck o'er with titles, aud hung round with firing*,.... | |
 | 1794 - 918 pages
...You'll find, if once the monarch acls the monk, O», coHer-like, the parfon will be drunk, Worth malees the man, and want of it the fellow : The reft is all but leather or prunella. Stuck o'er with titles and hung round with ftrings, That thou mayft be by kings, or whores of kings.... | |
 | James Lackington - Booksellers and bookselling - 1794 - 346 pages
...you friend— a wife man and a fool. You'll find, if once the monarch acts the monk, Or, cobler-hke, the parfon will be drunk ; Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow, Tlie reft is.all b.it leather or prunella. I'o ? i» My third was, and ftill is fo greiit for literature,... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1794 - 718 pages
...Mercury joins with the mechanic in giving the Nobleman this old leclure, " Worth makes the man, the want of it the fellow, The reft is all but leather or prunella;" " Paulin, vel Coffin, i¡el Drufus moriius rßo ; Hot ante effigies majorum pane t nor urn." Art. 21.... | |
 | 1794 - 612 pages
...Mechanic. 8vo. is. Jordan. . A/c-fo imitation of Lucian, to the old tune of " Worth makes the man, the want of it the fellow, The reft is all but leather or prunella;" apd in which Mercury joins with the mechanic in giving the Nobleman this old lecture, " Paulas, "velCojfut,... | |
 | Robert Anderson - English poetry - 1795 - 906 pages
...friend ! a wife man and a fool. 200 You'll find, if once the monarch aas the monk, Or, coblcr-like, the parfon will be drunk, • Worth makes the man,...fellow : The reft is all but leather or prunella. -Stuck o'er with titles and hung round with I firings, That thou mayft be by kings, or whores of kings.... | |
 | Mr. Pratt (Samuel Jackson) - Europe - 1795 - 582 pages
...as for a good fuit of cloaths, and a good appetite ; for, after all, my friend, it will be found " Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow, " The reft is all but leather and prunella." Not that I mean, in any thing I have faid, to apply in particular to the heads of the... | |
 | 1796 - 246 pages
...you, frknd; a wife man and a fool. You'll find, if once the monarch ads the monk, Or, cobler-like, the parfon will be drunk, Worth makes the man, and...the fellow; The reft is all but leather or prunella. Stuck o'er with titles, and hung round with ftrings, That thou may'ft be by kings, or whores of kings... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1796 - 574 pages
...you, friend ; a wife man and a fool. You '11 find, if once the monarch ails the monk, Or, coblcr-iikc, the parfon will be drunk, Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow: The rcil is all but leather or prunella, [firings. Stuck o'er with title;, and hung round with That thou... | |
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