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" 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. "
The Quarterly Review - Page 397
1817
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The Plain Speaker: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things : in Two Volumes, Volume 2

William Hazlitt - Rationalism - 1826 - 462 pages
...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...
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The Plain Speaker: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things, Volume 1

William Hazlitt - 1826 - 464 pages
...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...
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The Plain Speaker: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things, Volume 2

William Hazlitt - Aesthetics - 1826 - 464 pages
...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...
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The Poetical Works, Volume 2

Alexander Pope - 1828 - 264 pages
...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 stringy, That thou may'st be by kings, or whores of kings....
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A London Encyclopaedia, Or Universal Dictionary of Science, Art ..., Volume 18

Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 804 pages
...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...
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A London Encyclopaedia, Or Universal Dictionary of Science, Art ..., Volume 9

Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 822 pages
...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...
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A new and literal translation of Juvenal and Persius; with notes by M. Madan ...

Juvenal - 1829 - 334 pages
...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 detestable...
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A New and Literal Translation of Juvenal and Persius: With Copious ..., Volume 1

Juvenal, Martin Madan - Latin poetry - 1829 - 334 pages
...himself, not what his ancestors were, is the great matter to be considered. ' Worth make& 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 censures the detestable...
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The Moral Instructor, and Guide to Virtue: Being a Compendium of Moral ...

Jesse Torrey - Ethics - 1830 - 336 pages
...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...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: To which is Prefixed the Life of ...

Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 pages
...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...
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