 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.  Extracts, Elegant, Instructive, and Entertaining, in Poetry - Page 210edited by - 1791Full view - About this book
 | Vicesimus Knox - Conduct of life - 1791 - 510 pages
...you, friend ! 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...Stuck o'er with titles, and hung round with That thou may'rt be by kings, or whores of kings, Boaft the pure blood of an illuftrious race, Jn quiet flow... | |
 | James Lackington - Booksellers and bookselling - 1791 - 366 pages
...you friend— 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...the fellow, The reft is all but leather or prunella. Pop E. My thirft was, and ftill is fo great for literature, that I could almoft fubfcribe to the opinions... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1792 - 612 pages
...mind,) but as having contributed to difplay his virtues, and, of couiie, to exalt his chara««: " Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow; The reft is all but leather and prunella." Art. 68. Vindicia landa<vtnfei: or, Strictures on the Bifhop of Landaff's late Charge,... | |
 | 1792 - 640 pages
...mind,) but as having contributed to difplay his virtues, and, ofcourfe, to exalt hi« cha» rafter: " Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow ; The reft is all but leather and prunella." ufo Art. 68. f'ir.Hifi.-e Landavcnfcs : Or, Striftures on the BifllOp of Landaff's late... | |
 | James Roach - English poetry - 1793 - 274 pages
...you, friend ; a wife man and a fool. You'll find, if once the monarch arts the monk, Or, cobler-like, the parfon will be drunk, Worth makes the man, and want of it, the fellow; Ihereil is all but leather and prunello. Sluck Stuck o'er with titles, aud hung round with firing*,.... | |
 | 1794 - 918 pages
...You'll find, if once the monarch acls the monk, O», coHer-like, the parfon will be drunk, Worth malees 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 mayft be by kings, or whores of kings.... | |
 | James Lackington - Booksellers and bookselling - 1794 - 346 pages
...you friend— a wife man and a fool. You'll find, if once the monarch acts the monk, Or, cobler-hke, the parfon will be drunk ; Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow, Tlie reft is.all b.it leather or prunella. I'o ? i» My third was, and ftill is fo greiit for literature,... | |
 | Robert Anderson - English poetry - 1795 - 906 pages
...friend ! a wife man and a fool. 200 You'll find, if once the monarch aas the monk, Or, coblcr-like, the parfon will be drunk, • Worth makes the man,...fellow : The reft is all but leather or prunella. -Stuck o'er with titles and hung round with I firings, That thou mayft be by kings, or whores of kings.... | |
 | Mr. Pratt (Samuel Jackson) - Europe - 1795 - 582 pages
...as for a good fuit of cloaths, and a good appetite ; for, after all, my friend, it will be found " Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow, " The reft is all but leather and prunella." Not that I mean, in any thing I have faid, to apply in particular to the heads of the... | |
 | 1796 - 246 pages
...you, 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...the fellow; The reft is all but leather or prunella. Stuck o'er with titles, and hung round with ftrings, That thou may'ft be by kings, or whores of kings... | |
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