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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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Literary remains of the late William Hazlitt. With a notice of his life, by ...

William Hazlitt - 1836 - 1000 pages
...was so full of the opposite conviction, that he has even written a bad couplet to express it: — " Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow : The rest is all but leather and prunella." Those lines in Cowper also must sound very puerile or old-fashioned to courtly ears...
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Essays : on self-love

William Hazlitt - 1836 - 486 pages
...was so full of the opposite conviction, that he has even written a bad couplet to express it: — " Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow : The rest is all but leather and prunella." Those lines in Cowper also must sound very puerile or old-fashioned to courtly ears...
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Literary Remains of the Late William Hazlitt: Essays: On self-love. On the ...

William Hazlitt - 1836 - 486 pages
...so full of the opposite conviction, that he has even written a bad couplet to express it: — • " Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow : The rest is all but leather and prunella." Those lines in Cowper also must sound very puerile or old-fashioned to courtly ears...
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The Poetical Works of A. Pope: Including His Translation of Homer , to which ...

Alexander Pope - 1836 - 502 pages
...fool. 200 Yon'll find, if once the monarch acts the monk, Or, cohhler-like, the parson will he drunk, Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow • The rest is all hut leather or prunella. Stuck o'er with titles and hung round with sthngs, That thou may'st he hy...
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The Poems of Alexander Pope: A One-volume Edition of the Twickenham Text ...

Alexander Pope - 1963 - 884 pages
...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 may'st be by kings, or whores of...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 16

1816 - 592 pages
...matter of common occurrence, into the vulgar herd ; that, in short, under this enlightened government, ' Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow, The rest is all but leather or prunella." We are cautioned, however, at the same time, not to regard the literary qualifications, which pave...
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The Salmon P. Chase Papers: Journals, 1829-1872

Salmon Portland Chase - 1993 - 454 pages
...Morton was quoting loosely from the fourth epistle of Alexander Pope's Essay on Man (1734), lines 204-5: "Worth makes the man, and want of it, the fellow: The rest is all but leather or prunella." Congressional Globe, 4Oth Cong., zd sess., 1867-68, 3871-72; New York Times, July 3, 1868. TO WILLIAM...
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He Knew He was Right

Anthony Trollope - 1998 - 996 pages
...cobbler ('leather') is contrasted to the parson ('prunella' — the material of the clerical gown): Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow, The rest is all but leather and prunella. Alpine Club: the Alpine Club was founded in London in 1857. 360 and parallelogrammatic...
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Enlightenment and Community

Benjamin W. Redekop - 2000 - 282 pages
...assessed in view of this possibility of earning merit in every estate (Stand), in every occupation: 'Worth makes the Man and want of it the Fellow. / The rest is all but Leather or Prunella.' "54 It is clear that Abbt's perspective was attuned to the traditional social structure; the point...
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Human Vices and Human Worth in Dante's Comedy

Patrick Boyde - 2006 - 340 pages
...tetigisse. Ibid, iv, xviii, 12 Neither in inward worth nor outward fair. SHAKESPEARE, Sonnets, 16, 11 Wonh makes the man, and want of it the fellow: The rest is all but leather or prunella. POPE, Essay on Man, iv, 203 'I wish . . . that her birth were equal to her fortune, as I am sure that...
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