"Prunello" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Tread lightly where the bard is laid; He cannot mend the shoe he made. Yet he is happy in his hole With verse immortal as his soul; But still to business he held fast And stuck to Pheabus to the last. Then who shall say so good a fellow Was only leather and prunello? For character he did not lack it And if he did't were shame ...
— Quaint Epitaphs • Various
... Atheistical age, and its concomitants are selfishness, sensationalism and sham. The old heartiness and healthiness have gone out of life, have been supplanted by the artificial. Everything is now show and seeming—"leather and prunella"—the body social become merely a galvanic machine or electric motor. In our gran'sire's day "the great man helped the poor, and the poor man loved the great"; now the great man systematically despoils the poor and the poor man regards the ...
— Volume 1 of Brann The Iconoclast • William Cowper Brann |
