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. Letters on Literature, Taste, and Composition: Addressed to His Son - Side 166af George Gregory - 1808Fuld visning - Om denne bog
| 1796 - 246 sider
...frknd; a wife man and a fool. You'll find, if once the monarch ads the monk, Or, cobler-like, the parfon will be drunk, Worth makes the man, and want of it, the fellow; The reft is all but leather or prunella. Stuck o'er with titles, and hung round with ftrings, That thou... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - 1796 - 574 sider
...a wife man and a fool. You '11 find, if once the monarch ails the monk, Or, coblcr-iikc, the parfon will be drunk, Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow: The rcil is all but leather or prunella, [firings. Stuck o'er with title;, and hung round with That thou... | |
| 1797 - 614 sider
...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 sider
...(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, cobler-like, the parson...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... | |
| 1800 - 322 sider
...(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, cobler-like, the parson...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 of kings;... | |
| Noah Webster - 1802 - 278 sider
...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...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 — s of Kings... | |
| 1803 - 250 sider
...a wife man and a fool. You'll find, if once the monarch afts the monk, Or, cobler like, the parfon will be drunk, Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow; The reft is all but leather and prunella.—Pope. , AMONG the Sytmr'.ns, or fugitive negroes in the South... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1804 - 232 sider
...(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...with titles, and hung round with strings, That thou mayst be by kings, or whores of kings, Boast the pure blood of an illustrious race, In quiet flow from... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1804 - 496 sider
...faults, and feel our own: You 'II find, if once tiie monarch aQs the monk, Or, cobler-lik.e, the parfon will be drunk, Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow : The reft is ail but bother or prunella. Stuck o'er with pities and hung round with ft rings, acy That thou... | |
| Noah Webster - 1804 - 232 sider
...A wife man and a fool. You'll find if once the wife man a£h the monk, Or, cobler-like, the parfon will be drunk ; Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow ; The reft is all but leather or prunella. Go! ,if your ancient, but ignoble blood, Has crept through fcoundrels... | |
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