 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.  Works: Life and Letters - Page 127by William Cowper - 1835Full view - About this book
 | William Hayley - 1806 - 458 pages
...respect paid to their superiors. Much good may such participation do them ! They themselves know how little it amounts to. The dignity a parson derives...of his diocesan, will never endanger his humility. says truly—— Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow, The rest is all but leather or prunella.... | |
 | 1806 - 330 pages
...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 may'st be by kings, or whores of kings... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - 464 pages
...state of good.* 49. — — — A better wou'd you fix ? Then give Humility a coach and six.f J. • Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow ; The rest is all but leather or prunella.}; Not one looks backward, onward still he goes, Yet ne'er looks forward further than his nose.§ To sigh... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - 440 pages
...obedience, and their state of good.* 49. A better wou'd you fix ? Then give Humility a coach and six.f Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow ; The rest is all but leather or prunella4 Not one looks backward, onward still he goes, "Yet ne'er looks forward further than his nose.§... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1807 - 316 pages
...What differ more (you cry) than crown and cowl?1' I'll tell you, friend, a wise man and a fool. 200 .Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow; The rest is all hut leather or prunella. 204 Stuck o'er with titles, and hung round with strings. That thou may'st... | |
 | Juvenal - 1807 - 390 pages
...himself, not what his ancestors were, is the great matter to be considered. " Worth makes the man, the want of it the fellow; " The rest is all but leather or pruncllo." .Porn. END OF THE EIGHTH SATIRE. SATIRA IX. ARGUMENT. Juvenal, in this Satire, exposes and... | |
 | George Gregory - 1808 - 352 pages
...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, " That thou mayest be by kings, or whores... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1808 - 702 pages
...a fool. Yon'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. Stnck o'er with titles and hung round with strings, That thou mayst be by kings, or whores of kings.... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 328 pages
...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 prunello. Stuck o'er with titles,and hung round with strings ; That thon may'st be by kings, or whores... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1808 - 334 pages
...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 may'st be by kings, or whores... | |
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