 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.  Cowley (1618) to Burns (1759) - Page 869by Sir William Robertson Nicoll, Thomas Seccombe - 1907Full view - About this book
 | William Hazlitt - 1836 - 486 pages
...so full of the opposite conviction, that he has even written a bad couplet to express it: — • " Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow : The rest is all but leather and prunella." Those lines in Cowper also must sound very puerile or old-fashioned to courtly ears... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1836 - 502 pages
...fool. 200 Yon'll find, if once the monarch acts the monk, Or, cohhler-like, the parson will he drunk, Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow • The rest is all hut leather or prunella. Stuck o'er with titles and hung round with sthngs, That thou may'st he hy... | |
 | John Bellenden Ker - English language - 1840 - 330 pages
...prunella, is the stuff a clergyman's gown is made of, and leaves leather .to take its chance ! ! " Worth makes the man, and want of it the *fellow "The rest is all but LEATHER OR PRUNELLO." Pope. " Shall we send that foolish CARRION, Mrs. Quickly, to " him and excuse his throwing... | |
 | Jesse Olney - Readers - 1838 - 346 pages
...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. 2. Boast the pure blood of an illustrious race. In quiet flow from Lucrece to Lucrece : But by your... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poetry - 1963 - 884 pages
...Fool. 200 You'l! 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, 205 That thou may'st be by kings, or whores of... | |
 | English literature - 1816 - 592 pages
...matter of common occurrence, into the vulgar herd ; that, in short, under this enlightened government, ' Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow, The rest is all but leather or prunella." We are cautioned, however, at the same time, not to regard the literary qualifications, which pave... | |
 | Salmon Portland Chase - Biography & Autobiography - 1993 - 454 pages
...Morton was quoting loosely from the fourth epistle of Alexander Pope's Essay on Man (1734), lines 204-5: "Worth makes the man, and want of it, the fellow: The rest is all but leather or prunella." Congressional Globe, 4Oth Cong., zd sess., 1867-68, 3871-72; New York Times, July 3, 1868. TO WILLIAM... | |
 | Anthony Trollope - Fiction - 1998 - 996 pages
...cobbler ('leather') is contrasted to the parson ('prunella' — the material of the clerical gown): Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow, The rest is all but leather and prunella. Alpine Club: the Alpine Club was founded in London in 1857. 360 and parallelogrammatic... | |
 | Benjamin W. Redekop - History - 2000 - 282 pages
...assessed in view of this possibility of earning merit in every estate (Stand), in every occupation: 'Worth makes the Man and want of it the Fellow. / The rest is all but Leather or Prunella.' "54 It is clear that Abbt's perspective was attuned to the traditional social structure; the point... | |
 | Patrick Boyde - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 340 pages
...tetigisse. Ibid, iv, xviii, 12 Neither in inward worth nor outward fair. SHAKESPEARE, Sonnets, 16, 11 Wonh makes the man, and want of it the fellow: The rest is all but leather or prunella. POPE, Essay on Man, iv, 203 'I wish . . . that her birth were equal to her fortune, as I am sure that... | |
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