Notes & Queries Archive
REPLY1850

PASSAGES FROM POPE

By C. FORBES. (Temple)

"Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow; The rest is all but leather and prunello." Essay on Man, Epistle IV. 203. Will your correspondent "P.C.S.S." (No. 13), evidently a critical reader of Pope, and probably rich in the possession of various editions of his works, kindly inform me whether any commentator on the poet has traced the well-known lines that I have quoted to the "Corcillum est, quod homines facit, cætera quisquilia omnia" of Petronius Arbiter, cap. 75.? Pope had certainly both read and admired the *Satyricon*, for he says:— "Fancy and art in gay Petronius please, The schol…

Topics: Literature, Poetry, Classical References

Locations: London