 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.  The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope - Page 221by Alexander Pope - 1879 - 505 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Bell - English poetry - 1796 - 524 pages
...gown'd, The frier hooded, and the monarch crown'd. " What differ more (you cry) thancrownahdcowl?" I'll tell you, friend, a wise man and a fool. 200 You'll find, if once the monarch acts ihe monk, Or, cobler-like, the pirson will be drunk. Worth makes the man, and want of it the ftllow;... | |
 | Civil rights - 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 kings, or whores... | |
 | 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 to have beer,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1798 - 140 pages
...friend-— 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...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 kings, or whores... | |
 | English poetry - 1800 - 322 pages
...you, friend; 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 may'st be by kings-, or whores... | |
 | Noah Webster - Readers - 1802 - 278 pages
...you, friend ! A wise man and a 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...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 kings, or w —... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 232 pages
...The friar hooded, and the monarch crown'd. " What differ more (you cry) than crown and coul ?" I'll tell you, friend, a 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... | |
 | 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 and enlarged,... | |
 | Poetry - 1806 - 330 pages
...you, friend; 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 may'st be by kings, or whores... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - 440 pages
...obedience, and their state of good.* 49. A better wou'd you fix ? Then give Humility a coach and six.f Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow ; The rest is all but leather or prunella4 Not one looks backward, onward still he goes, "Yet ne'er looks forward further than his nose.§... | |
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