 | 1795 - 432 pages
...crown'd. What differ more,, you cry, than crown and cowl ? I'll tell you, friend; a wise man and a fool. 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... | |
 | 1797 - 614 pages
...external form and appearance are of no consideration, in comparison with internal qualities. 'Jfhus, " Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow; The rest is all but leather or prunello." • But in applying this favourite maxim to forms of government, he appears... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1798 - 140 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 thou may'st be by... | |
 | 1800 - 322 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... | |
 | Noah Webster - 1802 - 278 pages
...fool. You'll find, if once the wise roan act* 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 ov'r with titles and hung round with strings,"That thou may'st be by... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 232 pages
...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 thou mayst be... | |
 | Pierre Franc M'Callum - 1805 - 376 pages
...death, but I did then, what I do now, bestow a sigh .to his memory. — To apply the words of POPE, Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow ; The rest is all but leathg: or pruncllo. t . . - - . , and may well be said to be a disgrace to human nature. Permit... | |
 | 1805 - 498 pages
...populace ; and happy instances of its power are afforded by individuals of the most elevated ranks. " Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow ; " The rest is all but leather, or prunello." On the eve of printing this article, a new edition of the work, corrected... | |
 | William Cowper - 1806 - 462 pages
...fanciful, and a mere invention: in the next place he says it gives a dignity to the ministry itself, and the clergy share in the respect paid to their...says truly—— Worth makes the man, and want of jt the fellow, The rest is all but leather or prunella. Again — " Rich and splendid situations in... | |
 | William Hayley - 1806 - 458 pages
...fanciful, and a mere invention: in the next place he says it gives a dignity to the ministry itself, and the clergy share in the respect paid to their...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.... | |
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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. 
