 | Alexander Pope - 1890 - 562 pàgines
...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 the epitaph... | |
 | Shrewsbury (England). Royal School - 1801 - 368 pàgines
...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...never said a foolish thing, And never did a wise one. Amans Patriae. Пa\aíтaтoi вeшv, o"тrep, fjч àp%íjí тo тгplv -)(аovч àfíavpov Secrтгóтai... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth - 1801 - 372 pàgines
...the powers of reasoning in our pupils ; " Here lies the mutton eating king; Whose promise none relied on ; Who never said a foolish thing, And never did a wise one. Epitaph on Charles 2d. pupils ; we must consider now how these can be applied immediately to their... | |
 | Select collection - 1806 - 262 pàgines
...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 was vicar of that place forty-Jive... | |
 | 1806 - 274 pàgines
...47 CV. ROCHESTER'S EPITAPH ON CHARLES n. Here lies the mutton-eating king, Whose word no man relied on ; Who never said a foolish thing, And never did a wise one. .. CVI. THE FOND HUSBAND NO STORY-TELLER. When Thomas calls his wife his half, I like the fellow's... | |
 | 1806 - 284 pàgines
...! Splendide mendax. ON KING CHARLES II. y By Lord Rochester. HERE lies our sovereign lord the lung, Whose word no man relies on ; Who never said a foolish thing, Nor ever did a wise one. ON ONE NAMED JOHN. DEATH came to John, And whisper'd in his ear, You must... | |
 | William Sampson - 1807 - 474 pàgines
...whose bed his friend and jester, Rochester, inscribed, in his life-time, this ludicrous epitaph.' " Here lies our sovereign Lord the King, •'» ' "...,.*• ' ~ •* " Who never said a foolish thing, « Nor never did a wise one." James //. ONCE more a Romish Monarch— The Irish rejoice — exult —... | |
 | Panorama - 1809 - 368 pàgines
...how much his fun'ral cost . WRITTEN ON THE CHAMBER DOOR OF KING CHARLES HERE lies the mutton-eating King, Whose word no man relies on ; Who never said a foolish thing. Nor ever did a wise one. EPITAPH. HERE lies Tom Rogers, and, 'tis something rarish, He was born, and... | |
 | 1812 - 156 pàgines
...CLXXIll. ROCHESTER'* Epitaph on CHARLES II. Here lies the mutton-eating king, Whose word no man relied on ; Who never said a foolish thing, And never did a wise one. CLXXIV. Belinda has such store of charms, Tis Heav'n to lie within her arms ; And she's so charitably... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - 1833 - 412 pàgines
...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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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. 
