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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. "
A New and Literal Translation of Juvenal and Persius: With Copious ... - Page 287
by Juvenal, Martin Madan - 1829
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L'essai sur l'homme

Alexander Pope - Human beings - 1821 - 254 pages
...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 kings , or...
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Traduction de l'essai sur l'homme de Pope: en vers français, précédée d'un ...

Alexander Pope - Human beings - 1821 - 268 pages
...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 kings, or whores...
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An Essay on Man: To which are Added, the Universal Prayer, and Other ...

Alexander Pope - 1821 - 86 pages
...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 prunello. Stuck o'er with titles, and 'hung round with strings, 205 That thou may'st be by kings, or...
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 3

Alexander Pope - 1822 - 370 pages
...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. 204 Stuck o'er with titles, and hung round with strings, That thou mayst be by kings, or whores of...
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The Works of Alexander Pope;

Alexander Pope - 1822 - 368 pages
...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. 204 Stuck o'er with titles, and hung round with strings, That thou mayst be by kings, or whores of...
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The British poets, including translations, Volume 41

British poets - 1822 - 276 pages
...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 prunello. [strings; But by your fathers' worth if your's you rate, Count me those only who were good...
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Fifteen Years in India; Or, Sketches of a Soldier's Life: Being an Attempt ...

Robert Grenville Wallace - India - 1823 - 710 pages
...may rejoice, and let folly nick-name him " the seventh part of a human creature ;" for " Worth makes the man, the want of it the fellow, " The rest is all but leather and prunella." The lower conditions of life are pregnant with considerations which produce contentment,...
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Lessons in Elocution: Or, a Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse for the ...

William Scott - Elocution - 1823 - 396 pages
...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. > , Boast the ])fre blood of an illustrious race, In quiet flow from Lucrece, to Lucrece : But by your...
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A Dictionary of Spanish Proverbs

John Collins (merchant.) - Proverbs, Spanish - 1823 - 404 pages
...good man's pedigree." " Virtus sola nobilitat. " Virtue alone ennobles." " Worth makes the man, and want of it, the fellow ; " The rest is all but leather or prunello." 1 PoPE. Al hombre comedor, ni cosa dehcada, ni apetito en el sabor. — " An immoderate...
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The Works of Alexander Pope: Esq. with Notes and Illustrations by ..., Volume 5

Alexander Pope - English literature - 1824 - 430 pages
...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. 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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