 | Agnes Strickland, Elisabeth Strickland - 1851 - 740 pages
...his majesty's chamber door : — "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." "It is very true," replied Charles, after he had read the lines; "my doings are those of my ministers,... | |
 | 1851 - 658 pages
...not more severe than it is just : 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. How witty was the reply : " The matter, he observed, was easily accounted for — his discourse was... | |
 | Peter Cunningham - 1852 - 250 pages
...not more severe than it is just : 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. How witty was the reply. " The matter," he observed, • Walpoliana, vol. ip 58. " was easily accounted... | |
 | Mrs. Markham - 1852 - 420 pages
...of the wits of his court : — 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. This was shown to Charles, and he said, in his pleasant way, that it was very true ; for his words... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1852 - 610 pages
...delightful a companion, how good-natured a man, how full of buoyancy and wit, a very ditto of Old Rowley, lace in this notice : — THANATOPSM. " To him who in the lo D'Orsay was born n prince of fashion, and a dandy-king, formed, indeed, to be the Count Antony Hamilton... | |
 | Francis Edward Smedley - 1853 - 306 pages
...people were getting up. Still, he had his good points. Unlike King Charles, of naughty memory — " Who never said a foolish thing, And never did a wise one," however dull and trite might be Mr. Slowkopf's remarks, his actions were invariably good and kind.... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1853 - 478 pages
...than jostv ^ [ ", t • ^ <L 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. After this sketch of the King's character, we must return to Scotland, from which we have been absent... | |
 | Elizabeth Cartwright Penrose - 1854 - 602 pages
...of the wits of his court : — 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. This was shown to Charles, and he said, in his pleasant way, that it was very true ; for his words... | |
 | James White - 1855 - 308 pages
...ratified as very correct : " Here lies our Sovereign Lord the King, \Vhose word no man relies on ; Who never said a foolish thing, And never did a wise one." But at this time, while Cromwell and puritanic enthusiasm hung like a black cloud over the sunny fields... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1855 - 692 pages
...The lines are well known. : — "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." t The Dnchess of Portsmouth, Charles II. 's favourite mistress; very unpopular at the time of the Popish... | |
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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. 
