 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
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1823 - 396 pages
...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. > , Boast the ])fre blood of an illustrious race, In quiet flow... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...e wise man and a fool. You'll find, if once the monarch acts the monk, Or, cobbler-like, the parson uitors came; Who prais'd me for imputed charms, And felt, or feign rest is all but leather or prunella. Stuck o'er with titlesand hung round with strings, That thou mayst... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1824 - 84 pages
...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 want of it the fellow : The rest is all but leather or prunello. Stuck o'er with titles and hung round with strings, 205 That thou... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English literature - 1824 - 424 pages
...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 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... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - Ethics - 1824 - 308 pages
...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. 27 Stuck o'er with titles and hung round with strings, That thou... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 422 pages
...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 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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...a wise man and a fool. You'll find, if onee the monareh aets the monk, Or, eobbler-like, the parson will be drunk, Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow : The rest is all but leather or prunella. Stuek o'er with titles and hung round with strings, That thou... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1825 - 536 pages
...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 want of it the fellow : The rest is all but leather or prunells. Stuck o'er with t it 1rs, and hung round with strings, That thon... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 460 pages
...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. Stuck o'er with titles, and hung round with strings; That thou... | |
 | Robert Southey - Anglican Communion - 1826 - 562 pages
...a wise man and a fool. You'll find, if once the monareh 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 prunello. Essay on Man. with wonder-workers, and persecutors, and traitors.... | |
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