 | James White - 1860 - 874 pages
...serious faith as his epitaph : — 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. LANDMARKS OF CHRONOLOGY. 1(>60. Restoration of Charles II. — Trial and execution of several of the... | |
 | Charles Campbell - 1860 - 790 pages
...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 pages
...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,... | |
 | Katherine Thomson - 1860 - 376 pages
...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... | |
 | James White - 1860 - 874 pages
...serious faith as his epitaph : — 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. LANDMARKS OF CHRONOLOGY. 1660. Restoration of Charles II. — Trial and execution of several of the... | |
 | John Hunter (of Uxbridge.) - 1860 - 300 pages
...line, is scarcely overdrawn : — Here lies our Sovereign Lord the King, "Whose word no mao 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... | |
 | Katherine Thomson - 1861 - 654 pages
...enough on ,the score of religion, her ladyship insisting that her child 100 QUARRELS WITH THE KINO. should be christened by a Protestant clergyman, while...her an immense fortune, much of which she squandered at the basset-table, often staking a thousand pounds at a time, and sometimes losing fifteen thousand... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1861 - 316 pages
...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... | |
 | 1863 - 830 pages
...of Charles II. is still remembered: " Here lies our mutton-eating king, Whose word no man relies on; Who never said a foolish thing, And never did a wise one." Sedley was a poet of the same kind. So was the great Dryden ; but his " dexterous sagacity" knew how... | |
 | Philip Smith - 1863 - 564 pages
...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. 
