 | 1806 - 284 страница
...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...wise one. ON ONE NAMED JOHN. DEATH came to John, And whisper'd in his ear, You must die John ; • D'ye hear .** Quoth John, to Death, The news is bad :... | |
 | Select collection - 1806 - 262 страница
...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 years. 144 The friend, the... | |
 | 1807 - 218 страница
...WRITTEN UNDER A PICTURE OF CHARLKS THE SECOND. [BY BEHOLD a witty, foolish King, Whose faith no man relies on ! Who never said a foolish thing. Nor ever did a wise one. ON A WAITER AND HIS FEIXOW-SERVANT, FORMERLY AT ARTHUR'S, IBOTH AFTERWARDS MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT, AND... | |
 | Panorama - 1809 - 368 страница
...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 bred, and hang'd, all in... | |
 | Thomas John Dibdin - 1813 - 344 страница
...Charles. XI 1660. CHARLES CHARLES THE SECOND. " The only genius of the Line of Stewart." HORACE WALPOLC. " Who never said a foolish thing, " Nor ever did a wise one." ^ ROCHESTER. " Few men put on the appearance of sincerity better, and iu which so much artifice was... | |
 | Thomas Green - 1818 - 654 страница
...verse, which was called the King's Epitaph : 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 ! In answer to which, Charles shrewdly admitted that it was true, Because, said he, my sayings are... | |
 | 1822 - 382 страница
..." All flesh is grass." ON KING CHARLES II. Here lies our sov'reign lord the king, Whose word no man relies on ; Who never said a foolish thing, Nor ever did a wise one. LORD ROCHESTER. ON A MAYOR OF EXETER. Here lies the body of Captain Tutty, Aged a hundred and nine... | |
 | George Wentworth - 1824 - 378 страница
...which he did immediately, us foliates. Here lies the mutton eating King, Whose word no -ndii rened on ; Who never said a foolish thing, Nor ever did a wise one. Charles, who could always relish a joke, on being shown this Epitaph, wrote the following comment upon... | |
 | Andrew Wilkie - 1824 - 348 страница
...prudence, immediately wrote the following: Here lies the mutton-eating king, Whose word no man relied on ; Who never said a foolish thing, Nor ever did a wise one. The satire was too just and biting to be endured, and Rochester was for some time in disgrace. Rochester... | |
 | George Croly - 1830 - 576 страница
...cleverest, and often the keenest things, with the easiest air of any high-born wit since the days of him " Who never said a foolish thing, Nor ever did a wise one." The Duchess of Rutland, who, happily, still lives, and still gives evidence of that beauty which once... | |
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EPITAPH ON 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. 
