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 Dictionary of Spanish Proverbs - Seite 281823 - 391 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| William Hazlitt - 1826 - 464 Seiten
...characters, and that their assumed pretensions did no more than justice to their real merits. Dress makes the man, and want of it the fellow : The rest is all but leather and prunella. I confess, however, that I admire this look of a gentleman, more when it rises from the... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1826 - 464 Seiten
...charactersj and that their assumed pretensions did no more than justice to their real merits. Dress makes the man, and want of it the fellow: The rest is all but leather and prunella. I confess, however, that I admire this look of a gentleman, more when it rises from the... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1826 - 462 Seiten
...characters, and that their assumed pretensions did no more than justice to their real merits. Dress makes the man, and want of it the fellow : The rest is all but leather and prunella. I confess, however, that I admire this look of a gentleman, more when it rises from the... | |
| Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 804 Seiten
...prescribed. PRUNEL'LO, ns Barb. Lat. prunella. A kind of stuff of which clergymen s gowns are made. Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow ; The rest is all but leather or pnmello. Pope. PRUNING, in gardening and agriculture, is the lopping off the superfluous branches of... | |
| Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 822 Seiten
...Arbuthnot. You'll find, if once the monarch acts the monk. Or, cobler-likc, the parson will be drunk, Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow ¡ The rest is all but leather and prunella. Pope. The bleeding condition of their fellow -subject' was a feather in the balance with... | |
| Juvenal, Martin Madan - 1829 - 346 Seiten
...himself, not what his ancestors were, is the great matter to be considered. Worth makes the man, the want of it the fellow ; The rest is all but leather or prunello. PoPE. SAT. vÎII. SÁTIRA IX. ARGUMENT. Juvenal, in this Satire, exposes and censures the detestable vice... | |
| Juvenal - 1829 - 334 Seiten
...himself, not what his ancestors were, is the great matter to be considered. Worth makes the man, the want of it the fellow ; The rest is all but leather or prunella. PoPE. SAT. VIII. SÁTIRA IX. ARGUMENT. Juvenal, in this Satire, exposes and vensures the... | |
| Jesse Torrey - 1830 - 336 Seiten
...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. 27 Stuck o'er with titles and hung round with strings, x That thou may'st be by kings, or slaves of... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 Seiten
...fool. WO You'll lind, if once the monarch acts the monk, Or, cobbler-like, the parson will be drunk. ooks, and eyes ; At every word a reputation dies. Sunn", i« all but leather or prunella. Stuck o'er with titles and hung round with strings, That thou may'st... | |
| William Danby - 1831 - 296 Seiten
...station or condition of life : and good sense, on the contrary, will always secure esteem and respect. " Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow: The rest is all but leather and prunello." This too is a truism ; but is it universally attended to ? CCCLXXXIII. " Rex nobilem,... | |
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