| Walter Scott - 1833 - 846 pages
...poignancy. 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 wile one." too; and there is no laughing at so sharp a jest, when it is dinned into your ears on all... | |
| Thomas Hamilton - 1833 - 420 pages
...and their character is the very reverse of that attributed by Rochester to the second Charles — " Who never said a foolish thing, And never did a wise one." It is not right that these men should be judged exclusively by their words; their actions also must... | |
| Thomas Hamilton - 1833 - 426 pages
...to the second Charles — AMERICAN LEGISLATORS. 109 ^.- : .f .,',' ; ,- • ', ...-.-i .- v n.., , " Who never said a foolish thing, And never did a wise one." It is not right that these men should be judged exclusively by their words ; their actions also must... | |
| Eliza Robbins - 1834 - 414 pages
...him by one of the wits of his court : — Here lies our sovereign lord tha 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 were... | |
| Franz Kottenkamp - 1836 - 390 pages
...©efïcfyt folgenbe ©rabfjj&rift fagte: 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. Die nmvefenben Damen mußten bet n>i|igen 3n>eibeutig!eit«n fortwa'f)renb bte 2iu.(jen flen unb erró'tíjen,... | |
| Walter Scott - 1836 - 432 pages
...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, 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... | |
| Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1840 - 686 pages
...before his face the following 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." The ladies who were present never failed to blush and look down on hearing witty inuendos, until the... | |
| 1840 - 520 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
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