 | Joe Miller - 1836 - 266 lehte
...Written on the Chamber Door of King Charles II. BY THE EARL OF ROCHESTER. Here lies the mutton-eating king, Whose word no man relies on ; Who never said a foolish thing, Nor ever did a wise one. Mankind punished, The crimes of men began to grow so great, That how to punish... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1840 - 686 lehte
...obliged to listen to an impertinence of Rochester, who read before his face the following epitaph : " Here lies our sovereign Lord the King, Whose word...never said a foolish thing, And never did a wise one." The ladies who were present never failed to blush and look down on hearing witty inuendos, until the... | |
 | 1840 - 520 lehte
...eminence, are apt to acquire a taste for the perturbing pursuits of fashion or ambition. Charles II. (" who never said a foolish thing, and never did a wise one") was wont to remark that he considered the country yeomen to be the happiest class of people in his... | |
 | 1846 - 670 lehte
...authenticated, that in consequence of the civil and ecclesiastical oppression of Charles I., that monarch "who never said a foolish thing and never did a wise one," while the same persecuting spirit was still rife that drove the Pilgrim fathers in 1620 to seek a grave... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - 1841 - 360 lehte
...an unfavourable opinion of my judgment—and, after all, ma'am, of the two classes of people, those who ' never said a foolish thing and never did a wise one,' and those who never did a foolish thing and never said a wise one, would not you rather that I should... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1845 - 770 lehte
...resented its poignancy. The lines are well known : — " Here lies our sovereign lord the King, \Vho.se me into a certain chapel, to see, as they said to each other, that all was ready. t The Duchess of Portsmouth, Charles H. 's favourite mistress ; very unpopular at the time of the Popish... | |
 | Karl Ludwig Klose - 1845 - 490 lehte
...England from his rule, the epigram of a contemporary might aptly have been engraved on his tomb : — " Here lies our sovereign lord the king, Whose word...never said a foolish thing, And never did a wise one." Yet how weak is even this epigram to express the infamy of a reign, in which the caprice of government... | |
 | Agnes Strickland - 1845 - 508 lehte
...day took the liberty of writing the following impromptu epigram on his majesty's chamber door : — " Here lies our sovereign lord the king, Whose word...never said a foolish thing, And never did a wise one." " It is very true," replied Charles, after he had read the lines, " my doings are those of my ministers,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1845 - 878 lehte
...composed at the King's request, who nevertheless resented its poignancy. The lines are well known : — " Here lies our sovereign lord the King, Whose word...never said a foolish thing. And never did a wise one." t The Duchess of Portsmouth, Charles II. 's favourite mistress ; тегу unpopular nt the time of... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1846 - 434 lehte
...upon him at his own request, by his witty favourite, the Earl of Rochester, is not more severe than just — " Here lies our Sovereign Lord the King,...never said a foolish thing, And never did a wise one." After this sketch of the King's character, we must return to Scotland, from which we have been absent... | |
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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. 
