 | Noah Webster - 1809 - 202 pages
...a wise man and a fool. You'll find if once the wise man acts the monk, Or, eobler like, the parson will be drunk ; Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow ; The rest is all but leather or prunella. Go, if your ancient, but ignoble blood, Has crept through scoundrels... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 546 pages
...wise man and a fool. 200 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... | |
 | John Sabine - 1810 - 308 pages
...a wise man 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 prunella. Stuck o'er with titles and hung round with strings, That thou... | |
 | Thomas Janes - 1810 - 336 pages
...a wise man 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 prunella. Stuck o'er with titles, and hung round with strings, That thou... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1811 - 662 pages
...order to humour their fubje6l, they ftoop to a more familiar ftyle than ufual. When Mr. Pope fays ; Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow ; The reft is all but leather or prunella ; he means, in compliance with his fubjecl, to condefcend a good deal below the ftatelinefs of his... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1811 - 596 pages
...order to humour their fubject, they ftoop to a more familiar ftyle than ufual. When Mr. Pope fays ; Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow ; The reft is all but leather or prunello ; he means, in compliance with his fubject, to condefcend a good deal below the ftatelinefs... | |
 | William Butler - 1811 - 548 pages
...that mankind will at length bear their willing teftimcny to the truth of Pope's well-known lines, that Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow , The reft is all but leather or prunello *. Prunello is a kind of fluff, of which the gowns of cler. gyrnen are made. What is the value... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1811 - 602 pages
...order to humour their fubject, the.y (loop to a more familiar flyle than uliial. When Mr. Pope fays; Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow; The reft it all but leather or prunello ; he means, in compliance with his fubject, to condefcend a good deal... | |
 | 1812 - 168 pages
...• «• You'll find if once trie monarch acts the ntfonlc, '-'"^ " Or, «'ohl*'i--like, the parson will be drunk, " Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow; " The rest is «il but leather or prunello." ''' * ' IS* MAILS, COACHES, &c. ', -. .ACCOUNT' ----- ! br.tiB:'H';:i^... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 348 pages
...wise man and a fool. 200 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. 204 Stuck o'er with titles, and hung round with strings, That... | |
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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. 
