 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 - Strana 166autor/autoři: George Gregory - 1808Úplné zobrazení - Podrobnosti o knize
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 372 str.
...friend ! a wise man and a fool. 200 You'll find, if once the monarch acts the monk, Or, cobbler-like, the parson will be drunk. Worth makes the man, and...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 - 1822 - 370 str.
...friend ! a wise man and a fool. 200 You'll find, if once the monarch acts the monk, Or, cobbler-like, the parson will be drunk, Worth makes the man, and...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... | |
 | 1822 - 284 str.
...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 prunello. [strings; But by your fathers' worth if your's you rate, Count me those only who were good... | |
 | 1822 - 628 str.
...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 Cowpcr also must sound very puerile or oldfashioned to courtly ears :... | |
 | William Scott - 1823 - 396 str.
...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...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... | |
 | 1823 - 404 str.
...— " Do not search for a 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... | |
 | 1834 - 442 str.
...nature and situation, whether they are countesses or country maidens, lords or leather cutters. • • Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow, " The rest is all but leather and prunella." Where right principles have been acted upon, when has frail humanity exhibited more... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 422 str.
...friend ! a wise man and a fool. 200 You'll find, if once the monarch acts the monk, Or, cobbler-like, the parson will be drunk, Worth makes the man, and...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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 str.
...you, friend ! e wise man and a fool. You'll find, if once the monarch acts the monk, Or, cobbler-like, nnumbcr'd suitors came; Who prais'd me for imputed...felt, or feign'da flame. " Each hour a mercenary cr Stuck o'er with titlesand hung round with strings, That thou mayst be by kings, or whores of kings.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 430 str.
...friend ! a wise man and a fool. 200 You'll find, if once the monarch acts the monk, Or, cobbler-like, the parson will be drunk, Worth makes the man, and...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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