| Charles Campbell - 1860 - 764 trang
...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.... | |
| Walter Scott - 1861 - 316 trang
...his own request, by his witty favorite, the Earl of Rochester, is not more severe than just : — " Here lies our Sovereign Lord the King, Whose word...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... | |
| Mrs. A. T. Thomson, Philip Wharton - 1861 - 504 trang
...bearing, and to pardon his attempt. "Well might the Earl of Rochester write of Charles — "Here lies my sovereign lord the king, Whose word no man relies...never said a foolish thing, And never did a wise one." entertained. " The man," says Evelyn, " had not only a daring, but a villainous unmerciful look, a... | |
| 1861 - 858 trang
...if they wished to emulate their " Merry Monarch," (as characterised by the F-arl of Rochester), - " Whose word no man relies on, Who never said a foolish thing, and never did a wise one." They were as careless of their health, wealth, time, and intellect as though there were no Beyond to... | |
| 1863 - 588 trang
...written upon Charles II., as is said, at his own request, by his favourite the Earl of Rochester : — " Here lies our sovereign Lord the King, Whose word...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... | |
| Evan Daniel - 1863 - 298 trang
...him the following epitaph, which, with the exception of the third line, is scarcely overdrawn : — Here lies our Sovereign Lord the King, Whose word...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... | |
| Philip Smith - 1863 - 564 trang
...travels again." His character was summed up in a mock epitaph by his boon companion Rochester : — " Here lies our sovereign lord the king, Whose word...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... | |
| 1863 - 830 trang
...platitude. His inscription for the chamber 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... | |
| 1863 - 686 trang
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