 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
 | 1834 - 442 pages
...nature and situation, whether they are countesses or country maidens, lords or leather cutters. • • Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow, " The rest is all but leather and prunella." Where right principles have been acted upon, when has frail humanity exhibited more... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 424 pages
...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 may'st be by kings, or whores of... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pages
...a fool. You'll find, if once the monarch acts the monk, Or, cobbler-like, the parson will be drunk. o prais'd me for imputed charms, And felt, or feign'da flame. " Each hour a mercenary cr Stuck o'er with titlesand hung round with strings, That thou mayst be by kings, or whores of kings.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 422 pages
...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 may'st be by kings, or whores of... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 84 pages
...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 prunello. Stuck o'er with titles and hung round with strings, 205 That thou may'st be by kings, or... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 80 pages
...fool. 300 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 prunello. Stuck o'er with titles and hung round with strings, 305 That thou may'st be by kings, or... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - 1824 - 308 pages
...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 prunello. 27 Stuck o'er with titles and hung round with strings, That thou may'st be by kings, or slaves... | |
 | Voltaire - 1824 - 434 pages
...ULTRA-CREPIDARIUS ; a Satire on William Gifford. By LEIGH HUNT. With Notes, containing Proofs and Illustrations. Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow, The rest is all but leather and prunella. — POPE. Assume a barbarous tyranny, to handle The Muses worse than Ostrogoth or Vandal... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 pages
...a fool. You'll find, if onee the monareh aets the monk, Or, eobbler-like, the parson will be drunk, e radiant sun Sprang from the east, or^nid the vault of night The moon suspended her sere Stuek o'er with titles and hung round with strings, That thou mayst be by kings, or whores of kings... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1825 - 536 pages
...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 prunells. Stuck o'er with t it 1rs, and hung round with strings, That thon may'st be by kings, or whores... | |
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