 | Alexander Pope - 1808 - 334 lehte
...and-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 prnnello. Stuck o'er with title*,and hung round withstrings ; That thou may'st be by kings, or whores... | |
 | 1808 - 408 lehte
...You'll find, if once the monareh л Is the monk, Or, cobbler-like, llic parson will bedrnuk, AYurth makes the man, and want of it the fellow : The rest is all hut leather or prunella. Stuck o'er with titles, and hung round with strings, [kings, That thon nu... | |
 | Noah Webster - 1809 - 202 lehte
...a fool. You'll find if once the wise man acts the monk, Or, eobler like, the parson will be drunk ; Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow ; The rest is all but leather or prunella. Go, if your ancient, but ignoble blood, Has crept through scoundrels ever since the flood ; Go, and... | |
 | John Sabine - 1810 - 308 lehte
...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...race, In quiet flow from Lucrece to Lucrece : But, But by your father's worth if your' a you rate, Count me those only who were good and great. Go ! if... | |
 | Thomas Janes - 1810 - 336 lehte
...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...an illustrious race, In quiet flow from Lucrece to Luorece : Bat by your father's worth, if your's you rate, Count me those only who were good and great.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 546 lehte
...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...and hung round with strings, That thou mayst be by kings.or whores of kings. Boast the pure blood of an illustrious race, In quiet flow from Lucrece to... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 536 lehte
...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....but leather or prunella. Stuck o'er with titles and hnng round v, ith strings, Thai thou mayst be by kings.or whores of kings. Roast the pure blood of... | |
 | William Warburton, Richard Hurd - 1811 - 454 lehte
...real worth as the rest : because, in the Jirst case the title is generally gained by no merit at all : Stuck o'er with titles, and hung round with strings,...That thou may'st be by kings, or whores of kings. In the second, by the merit of the first founder of the family, which will always, when reflected on,... | |
 | Richard Hurd (bp. of Worcester.) - 1811 - 374 lehte
...expression. And the reason is, the rhyme itself very naturally brings the expression along with it. 1 . " Stuck o'er with titles, and hung round with strings,...That thou may'st be by Kings, or whores of Kings." Essay on Man, E. iv. v. 205. from Mr. Cowley in his translation of Hor. 1. ep. 10. " To Kings, or to... | |
 | William Warburton - 1811 - 444 lehte
...real worth as the rest : because, in the jirst case the title is generally gained by no merit at all : Stuck o'er with titles, and hung round with strings,...That thou may'st be by kings, or whores of kings. In the second, by the merit of the first founder of the family, which will always, when reflected on,... | |
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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. 
