 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 London encyclopaedia, or, Universal dictionary of science, art ... - Page 133edited by Full view - About this book
 | Rufus W. Adams - 1818 - 322 pages
...thaff~»bwn and1 c«wl ?* I'll tell you, Mend—a wise man and the fool. You'll find, if once the wise man acts the monk. Or, cobler-like, the parson will be...Worth makes the man, and want of it, the fellow; The re&t is all but leather or prunella. Go! if your ancient but ignoble blood, Has crept thro' scoundrels... | |
 | George Colman - 1818 - 242 pages
...no respect whatever to the externals of Clergymen. He says, with seeming contempt for their dress, ' Worth makes the Man, and want of it the Fellow,' ' The rest is all but Leather or Prunello.' Who, meek though mitre'd, stedfast though they rise, Add dignity to Lawn that dignifies... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1849 - 638 pages
...fool. 200 You'll find, if once the monareh aets the moak, Or, cohhler-like, the parson will he druok, Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow; The rest is all hut leather or prunella. Stuck o'er with titles and hong round with strings, That thou may'st he hy... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1820 - 80 pages
...crown'd. "What differ more (you cry) than crown and cowl!" I'll tell you friend, a wise man and a fool. You'll find, if once the monarch acts the monk, Or,...want of it the fellow; The rest is all but leather er prunella. Stuck o'er with titles and hung round with strings, T hat thou mayst be by kings or whores... | |
 | William Scott - 1820 - 434 pages
...friend — a wise man aad a fool. Yuu'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. Boast the pure blood of an illustrious race, In quiet flow from Lucrece to Lucrece : But... | |
 | William Scott - 1819 - 366 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. Boast the pure blood of an illustrious race, In quiet flow from Lucrece, to Lucrece :... | |
 | John Aikin - 1820 - 832 pages
...you, friend ! a wise man and a fool. You'll find, if once the monarch acts the monk, Or, cobbler-like, rushing winds ; To suit her sounding cadence to the...floods , As is her theme, her numbers wildly great or prunella. Stuck o'er with titles, and hung round with strings, That thou mayst be by kings, or whores... | |
 | William Scott - 1820 - 398 pages
...fiad, if once the monarch acts the monk, Or, cobler like, the parson will get drunk ; Worth makes 'he man, and want of it the fellow^ The rest is all but leather or prunella. Boast the pure Mood of an illustrious race, In q«:et flow from Lucrece to Lucrece: But... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1821 - 268 pages
...Le destin nous habille ou de pourpre ou de bure. Un traitant, chargé d'or, est fier de sa parure ; You'll find, if once the monarch acts the monk, Or,...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 kings, or whores... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1821 - 252 pages
...What differ more (you cry ) than crown and cowl? » l'll tell you , friend ; a wise man and a fool. You'll find , if once the monarch acts the monk ,...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 kings ,... | |
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