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" 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 127
by William Cowper - 1835
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A new and literal translation of Juvenal and Persius; with notes by M. Madan ...

Juvenal - 1829 - 334 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 prunella. PoPE. SAT. VIII. SÁTIRA IX. ARGUMENT. Juvenal, in this Satire, exposes and vensures the detestable...
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A New and Literal Translation of Juvenal and Persius: With Copious ..., Volume 1

Juvenal, Martin Madan - 1829 - 334 pages
...himself, not what his ancestors were, is the great matter to be considered. ' Worth make& the man, the want of it the fellow ; The rest is all but leather or prunella. POPE. SAT. VIII. SÁTIRA IX. ARGUMENT. Juvenal, in this Satire, exposes and censures the detestable...
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The Moral Instructor, and Guide to Virtue: Being a Compendium of Moral ...

Jesse Torrey - 1830 - 336 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, x That thou may'st be by kings, or...
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Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History ..., Volumes 3-4

Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 pages
...wad uiuriallywouuded ut Zutpheo. ' IMÍ . . . 22. Jfib6 {spa trufe). Worth makes the man, and wan* miseries that threaten human nature : let us therefore rejo . . . But by your father's worth if yours you rate, Count me those only who were good and great. Go...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: To which is Prefixed the Life of ...

Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 pages
...fool. WO You'll lind, if once the monarch acts the monk, Or, cobbler-like, the parson will be drunk. ooks, and eyes ; At every word a reputation dies. Sunn", i« all but leather or prunella. Stuck o'er with titles and hung round with strings, That thou may'st...
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Thoughts on Various Subjects

William Danby - 1831 - 296 pages
...station or condition of life : and good sense, on the contrary, will always secure esteem and respect. " Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow: The rest is all but leather and prunello." This too is a truism ; but is it universally attended to ? CCCLXXXIII. " Rex nobilem,...
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The Works of Cowper and Thomson: Including Many Letters and Poems Never ...

William Cowper - 1832 - 602 pages
...will never endanger his far it. Yours, my dear friend, WC humility. Pope says truly Worth makes tho man, and want of it the fellow ; The rest is all but leather or prunello. Again — ' Rich and splendid situations in the church have been justly regarded OB prizes,...
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Ladies' Magazine and Literary Gazette, Volume 4

1831 - 596 pages
...outward incidents of this life were of little consequence ; that the poet was right — " Worth makes tho man, and want of it the fellow, The rest is all but leaI her or prunella." The importance of early instruction, and the blessed effects of n mother's teachings...
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The Grammatical Instructer; Containing an Exposition of All the Essential ...

Samuel B. EMMONS - 1832 - 168 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 arid hung round with strings, That thou may'st be by kings, or whores...
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The satirist: or, Every man in his humour

John Close - 1833 - 182 pages
...fool ; You'll find, if once the monarch acts the monk.^ Or cobbler-like, the parson will get drunk, Worth makes the man, and want of it, the fellow; The rest is all, but leather and prunello." Indeed, I do not see any difference betwixt one trade and another, as, in my opinion,...
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