 | Alexander Pope - 1890 - 562 pages
...poem well known now of Rochester Is his mock epitaph written on the door of Charles II. 's bedroom—, Here lies our sovereign lord the king. Whose word no man relies on ; Who never says a foolish thing, Nor ever does a wise one. Charles (not inferior In wit) declared... | |
 | Shrewsbury (England). Royal School - 1801 - 368 pages
...needful to the sacrifice My country asks, harden my soul to shed it ! TALFOURD. King Charles the Second. 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. Amans Patriae. Пa\aíтaтoi вeшv, o"тrep,... | |
 | Select collection - 1806 - 262 pages
...To whose pious memory This monument is erected by his lamenting son Samuel Fox, ON KING CHARLES II. Here lies our sovereign lord the king, Whose word no man relies on ; Who never said a foolish thing, Nor ever did a wise one. ON THE REV. MR. BE1GHTON, OF EGHAJW, Who... | |
 | William Sampson - 1807 - 474 pages
...whose bed his friend and jester, Rochester, inscribed, in his life-time, this ludicrous epitaph.' " Here lies our sovereign Lord the King, •'» ' " Whose word no man relies on ; ,.*• ' ~ •* " Who never said a foolish thing, « Nor never did a wise one." James //. ONCE more... | |
 | Marie de Rabutin-Chantal marquise de Sévigné - 1811 - 354 pages
...had placed himself in a state of disgraceful dependence on Lewis XIV. It has been said of him, that he never said a foolish thing, and never did a wise one. Judging by the following anecdote, he carried farther even than policy required, the practice of dissimulation,... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...care. A difTrent cause, says Parson Sly, 883 Written on the Bed-cliamler Door of Charles II ROCHESTER. HERE lies our sovereign lord the King, Whose word no man relies on ; He never says a foolish thing, Nor ever does a wise one. To Phyllis. THAT little patch upon your face Would... | |
 | 1857 - 878 pages
...take what was said at all amiss, viz. : — ' We have a pretty witty king. And whose word no man relys on ; He never said a foolish thing, And never did a wise one.' " The version I have been used to being,— " God save our mutton-eating king," &c. Soon follows another... | |
 | William Sampson - 1817 - 452 pages
...jester, Rochester, inscribed, in his Ufc-tiw, this ludicrous epitaph: *. r* •.«•*•.•• i* . .ii '•Here lies our sovereign lord the king> "Whose word no man relies on; •,•Who never said a foolish thing, "Nor never did a wise one." James H. OKCE more a Romish Monarch.... | |
 | Thomas Green - 1818 - 654 pages
...admirably drawn by the Earl of Rochester, in the celebrated verse, which was called the King's Epitaph : Here lies our Sovereign Lord the King, Whose word no man relies on; Who never said a foolish thing, Nor ever did a wise one ! In answer to which, Charles shrewdly admitted... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Sir William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero Baron Ernle, George Walter Prothero - 1821 - 612 pages
...the pen, the struggle would soon have been decided in his favour. What has been said of the son, that he never said a foolish thing and never did a wise one, might more truly be said of the father : in him, however, it proceeded from what, in other times and... | |
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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. 
