Wednesday 3 June 2020

"To Be Made Honest..."

See "Would God I Were..."

"To be made honest by an act of Parliament"

See The Devil Is An Ass, text here, Wikipedia here.

"Call up the bloody Territorials."

For this line, Google gives me only Operation Luna.

"Worth makes man, and want of it the fellow"

 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.

-copied from Alexander Pope, Essay on Man, EPISTLE IV, here.

And what that means, don't ask me.

1 comment:

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

I recall Anderson writing in one of his stories that Dryden and Pope seemed too rhetorical, but they still had something real to say.

Ad astra! Sean