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
| John Bellenden Ker - 1840 - 330 Seiten
...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 into the water."... | |
| Jesse Olney - 1838 - 346 Seiten
...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... | |
| William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1838 - 830 Seiten
...the less, or the less ragged. Goldsmith knew by rote, as well as Mr Prior, the distich of Pope — " Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow ; The rest is all but leather and primello." And what was /tie commentary on the text ? No, no 1 over the frailties of the necessitous... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1963 - 884 Seiten
...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... | |
| 1816 - 592 Seiten
...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,... | |
| Salmon Portland Chase - 1993 - 454 Seiten
...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.... | |
| Anthony Trollope - 1998 - 996 Seiten
...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 - 2000 - 282 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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... | |
| Joseph Twadell Shipley - 2001 - 688 Seiten
...palm of the hand. Gc, glove. Du, luff: loof, aloof, laveer: to beat to windward. letro. Gc, leather. Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow; The rest is all but leather or prunella. —Pope, An Essay on Man, iii leu I: loosen, unbind. Gk luein. lysin, -lysis, as analysis,... | |
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