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. American Monthly Knickerbocker - Página 602editado por - 1851Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Joseph Thomas J. Hewlett - 1843 - 70 páginas
...probably remind our readers of those lines of Pope, so often quoted, but so little regarded : — " Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow ; " The rest is all but leather and prunella." Page 21, line 17. " 'Tis 'cause they're men dead." This pun is as old as the hills. If we... | |
| John Aikin - 1843 - 826 páginas
...a fool. You'll find, if once the monarch acts the monk, Or, cobbler-like, the parson will be drunk, x or prunella. Stuck o'er with titles, and hung round with strings, That thou may'st be by kings, or... | |
| Karl Julius Weber - 1843 - 398 páginas
...ЗЯеп[феп. * Honor and ehame from no condition rise, Act well your part, there all the honour lies; Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow, The rest is all but leather or prunella I ( ') ber ©tanbe tooHen »rit Iciest cnt=> M/ren, benn Unf|Icid)(;cit bei Statuten (radote... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1845 - 432 páginas
...was 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 - 1963 - 884 páginas
...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,... | |
| Anthony Trollope - 1998 - 996 páginas
...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 asan... | |
| Salmon Portland Chase - 1993 - 454 páginas
...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,... | |
| Benjamin W. Redekop - 2000 - 282 páginas
...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;... | |
| Patrick Boyde - 2006 - 340 páginas
...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... | |
| Daniel R. Davis - 2001 - 630 páginas
...with the carefully elaborated word-pictures, in the same line, of the most polished of modern poets. Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow ; The rest is all but leather and prunello. THE KELT OR GAEL HIS ETHNOGRAPHY, GEOGRAPHY AND PHILOLOGY T. DE COURCY ATKINS ».A-, LONDON,... | |
| |