 | 1795 - 432 σελίδες
...crown'd. What differ more,, you cry, than crown and cowl ? I'll tell you, friend; a wise man and a fool. 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, That thou may'st... | |
 | 1797 - 614 σελίδες
...external form and appearance are of no consideration, in comparison with internal qualities. 'Jfhus, " Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow; The rest is all but leather or prunello." • But in applying this favourite maxim to forms of government, he... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1798 - 140 σελίδες
...a fool. You'll 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 prunello. Stuck o'er with titles, and hung round with strings, That thou may'st... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1800 - 460 σελίδες
...knight, A marquis, duke, and a' that; But an honest man's aboon his might, Gude faith he mauna fa' that! For a' that, and a' that, Their dignities, and a'...The pith o' sense, and pride o* worth, Are higher ranks than a' that. Then let us pray that come it may, As come it will for a' that, That sense and... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1800 - 614 σελίδες
...A marquis, duke, and a* thar ; But an honeft man's aboon his might, Glide faith he mauna fa' that ! For a' that, and a' that, Their dignities, and a' that, The pith o' fenfe, and pride o'worth, Are higher ranks than a' that. ' Then let us pray that come it may, As come... | |
 | 1800 - 322 σελίδες
...a fool. You'll 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, That thou may'st... | |
 | Noah Webster - 1802 - 278 σελίδες
...fool. You'll find, if once the wise roan act* 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 ov'r with titles and hung round with strings,"That thou may'st... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 232 σελίδες
...fool. 200 You'll 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. 204 Stuck o'er with titles, and hung round with strings, That thou... | |
 | Pierre Franc M'Callum - 1805 - 376 σελίδες
...death, but I did then, what I do now, bestow a sigh .to his memory. — To apply the words of POPE, Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow ; The rest is all but leathg: or pruncllo. t . . - - . , and may well be said to be a disgrace to human nature.... | |
 | 1805 - 498 σελίδες
...populace ; and happy instances of its power are afforded by individuals of the most elevated ranks. " Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow ; " The rest is all but leather, or prunello." On the eve of printing this article, a new edition of the work, corrected... | |
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He looks and laughs at a' that. A prince can mak' a belted knight, A marquis, duke, and a' that; But an honest man's aboon his might, Guid faith, he mauna fa' that! For a 
