 | Charles Campbell - 1860 - 790 pagini
...Six days after, all was in the dust." Rochester, in his epigram, described Charles the Second as one Who never said a foolish thing, and never did a wise one. But it is much easier to discover the foolish things that he did, than the wise things that he said.... | |
 | 1863 - 568 pagini
...profligates who disported themselves on the river with " the merry Monarch" Charles II., that King who " Never said a foolish thing, And never did a wise one ;" he who would visit the Mall in St. James's Park and play a match with my Lord Buckingham and Rochester,... | |
 | Charles Campbell - 1860 - 764 pagini
...Six days after, all was in the dust." Rochester, in his epigram, described Charles the Second as one Who never said a foolish thing, and never did a wise one. But it is much easier to discover the foolish things that he did, than the wise things that he said.... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1861 - 316 pagini
...favorite, the Earl of Rochester, is not more severe than just : — " Here lies our Sovereign Lord the King, Whose word no man relies on; Who never said a foolish thing, A.nd never did a wise one." After this sketch of the King's character, we must return to Scotland, from which we have been absent... | |
 | Grace Wharton, Philip Wharton - 1861 - 522 pagini
...his attempt. Well might the Earl of Rochester write of Charles— " Here lies my sovereign lord the king, Whose word no man relies on; Who never said a foolish thing, And never did a wise one." Notwithstanding Blood's outrages—the slightest penalty for which in our days would have been penal... | |
 | 1861 - 858 pagini
...if they wished to emulate their " Merry Monarch," (as characterised by the F-arl of Rochester), - " Whose word no man relies on, Who never said a foolish thing, and never did a wise one." They were as careless of their health, wealth, time, and intellect as though there were no Beyond to... | |
 | Mrs. A. T. Thomson, Philip Wharton - 1861 - 504 pagini
...time Lady Castlemaine, lodged in Whitehall, began her empire over the king of England. That man, " who never said a foolish thing, and never did a wise one," was the slave of this imperious and most impudent of women. She forced him to settle on her an immense... | |
 | 1863 - 588 pagini
...at his own request, by his favourite the Earl of Rochester : — " Here lies our sovereign Lord the King, Whose word no man relies on ; Who never said a foolish thing, And never did a wise one." "The matter," Charles wittily replied, "was easily accounted for — his discourse was his own, his... | |
 | Evan Daniel - 1863 - 298 pagini
...with the exception of the third line, is scarcely overdrawn : — Here lies our Sovereign Lord the King, Whose word no man relies on ; Who never said a foolish thing. And never did a wise one. The influence of his example, combined with the reactionary tendencies which always follow a period... | |
 | Philip Smith - 1863 - 564 pagini
...summed up in a mock epitaph by his boon companion Rochester : — " Here lies our sovereign lord the king, Whose word no man relies on ; Who never said a foolish thing, And never did a wise one." " Quite true ! " rejoined the king, "for my words are my own, and my acts are my ministers'." The convention... | |
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Here lies our Sovereign Lord the King, Whose word no man relies on ; Who never said a foolish thing, And never did a wise one. 
