...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...

...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...

...time Lady Castlemaine, lodged in Whitehall, began her empire over the king of England. That man, " who never said a foolish thing, and never did a wise one," was the slave of this imperious and most impudent of women. She forced him to settle on her an immense...

...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...

...the Earl of 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." "The matter," Charles wittily replied, "was easily accounted for — his discourse was his own, his...

...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...

...line, is scarcely overdrawn : — 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 influence of his example, combined with the reactionary tendencies which always follow a period...

...lines are well known: — •' Here lies our sovereign lord the King, Whose Vord no man relies on, Who never said a foolish thing, And never did a wise one." will ; and I will drink it super naculum. — And how stands the great Madam ? " * " Stoutly against...

...here, six years later, the hody of the arch-regicide, Oliver Cromwell, lay in state. When the happy monarch, who "never said a foolish thing, and never did a wise one," once more regained his throne, his mother, the dowager queen, returned to her old palace at Somerset...

...d'Âubigny, candidat de Charles II au cardinalat en 1661. — Charles II d'Angleterre, de qui on a pu dire : Who never said a foolish thing And never did a wise one, écrivait de Londres, manu propria, au cardinal Azzolini (i), six mois après son avènement au trône,...