| Juvenal - 1807 - 390 páginas
...what a man is in 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 pruncllo." .Porn. END OF THE EIGHTH SATIRE. SATIRA IX. ARGUMENT. Juvenal, in this Satire, exposes... | |
| 1846 - 526 páginas
...however, I do not entirely ascribe to the clothes which I wore, for as Hamlet very justly says, — Worth makes the man, the want of it the fellow, The rest is nought but leather and prunella, When I entered the salon, I found Madame de Vaudet seated before a... | |
| 1822 - 628 páginas
...opposite conviction, that he has even written a bad couplet to express it :— " Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow : The rest is all but leather and prunella." Those lines in Cowpcr also must sound very puerile or oldfashioned to courtly ears : —... | |
| Robert Grenville Wallace - 1823 - 710 páginas
...father," he may rejoice, and let folly nick-name him " the seventh part of a human creature ;" for " Worth makes the man, the want of it the fellow, " The rest is all but leather and prunella." The lower conditions of life are pregnant with considerations which produce contentment,... | |
| 1834 - 442 páginas
...they are countesses or country maidens, lords or leather cutters. • • Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow, " The rest is all but leather and prunella." Where right principles have been acted upon, when has frail humanity exhibited more of all... | |
| Voltaire - 1824 - 434 páginas
...William Gifford. By LEIGH HUNT. With Notes, containing Proofs and Illustrations. Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow, The rest is all but leather and prunella. — POPE. Assume a barbarous tyranny, to handle The Muses worse than Ostrogoth or Vandal... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1826 - 464 páginas
...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 level... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1826 - 464 páginas
...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 level... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1826 - 462 páginas
...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 levelof... | |
| Guards - 1827 - 294 páginas
...appetit, mes amis.'" THE GUARDS. 75 CHAPTER IV. DISAPPOINTMENT. HUMILIATION.—RETURN HOME. " Worth makes the man, the want of it the fellow; The rest is nought but leather and prunella." POPE. HERBERT GREBNLAW was kindly received by his brother officers,... | |
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