 | Walter Scott - 1845 - 878 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 wise one." t The Duchess of Portsmouth, Charles II. 's favourite mistress ; тегу unpopular nt the time of... | |
 | Karl Ludwig Klose - 1845 - 490 pages
...aptly have been engraved on his tomb : — " 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." Yet how weak is even this epigram to express the infamy of a reign, in which the caprice of government... | |
 | Agnes Strickland - 1845 - 508 pages
...epigram on 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,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1846 - 434 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... | |
 | 1846 - 668 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... | |
 | Anna Maria Hall - 1846 - 56 pages
...tradition ; but there is nothing of improbability about it. Her influence over the voluptuous monarch, ' Who never said a foolish thing And never did a wise one," was, at one period, unbounded. It was in this instance, at least, exerted in the cause of mercy and... | |
 | British and foreign sailors' society - 1847 - 614 pages
...that he was a philosopher of a most practical cast. He was not like our Charles the Second, a king " who never said a foolish thing, and never did a wise one." He fitted out fleets, which, navigated by Phoenician pilots and mariners, sailed from the Red Sea to... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw - 1849 - 608 pages
...the Protectorate ; and, above all, Charles himself, the easy, heartless, good-natured libertine, " Who never said a foolish thing, And never did a wise one." Villiers, the profligate Duke of Buckingham, is brought prominently forward ; but in attempting to... | |
 | Benjamin Hall Kennedy - 1850 - 364 pages
...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 Patríete. веыу, о"тгер, г)ч ар%г)ч то irplv •)(áov4 àfiavpov SecnrÓTai... | |
 | Agnes Strickland, Elisabeth Strickland - 1851 - 740 pages
...epigram on 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,... | |
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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. 
