 | Horace Walpole - English literature - 1806 - 476 pages
...win the hearts, when he could no longer gain the esteem of mankind6. Rochester's epigrammatic jest, that " he never said a foolish thing, nor ever did a wise one," forms a tolerable motto for his "picture in little." Dryden, however, did not scruple to laud him in... | |
 | 734 pages
...the hearts, when he could no longer gain the esteem of mankind. f Rochester's epigrammatic jest, ' that he never said a foolish thing, nor ever did a wise one,' forms a tolerable motto for his picture in little." The following short letter addressed to ae;i:eat... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English prose literature - 1824 - 794 pages
...monarch, it is impossible for us to regard with great severity. It has been remarked of this king, Died Feb. 6, 1686, aged 54. Hume. § 106. Another Character of CHARLES II. Charles II. was in his person... | |
 | Jeremy Collier - Great Britain - 1841 - 524 pages
...regard with great severity. " It has been remarked of Charles, that he never said a foolish thing nor did a wise one ; a censure which, though too far carried, seems to have some foundation in hi« character and deportment. When the king was informed of this saying, ho observed, ' that the matter... | |
 | George Russell French - 1841 - 444 pages
...throne as Charles II., whose character is comprised in the lines of one of his profligate favourites," " He never said a foolish thing, Nor ever did a wise one." The great Plague in 1665, and the great Fire in 1666, distinguish this from preceding reigns in national... | |
 | Robert Peirce Cruden - Associations, institutions, etc - 1843 - 622 pages
...unfavourable reminiscences. Charles procured for himself no higher fame, than to have it recorded of him, that he never said a foolish thing, nor ever did a wise one ; and James, after wielding in succession, the trident, and the sceptre of these realms, was driven... | |
 | Thomas Stephen - Scotland - 1844 - 696 pages
...errors, and so much lenity in pardoning the offences committed against himself2." IT WAS frequently remarked of Charles, " that he never said a foolish thing, nor ever did a wise one," a severe and unjust censure ; but when it was related to the merry monarch, he readily accounted for... | |
 | Sydney Whiting - 1846 - 464 pages
..." Pickwick " celebrity. Our Mr. Dickens is a man of whom it might justly be said, as of Charles I., that he never said a foolish thing, nor ever did a wise one ; he is generally a taciturn, always mild, gentlemanly, inoffensive, and modest, as Goldsmith's Bashful... | |
 | Joseph Jones - 1849 - 602 pages
...designs, he was seized with illness, languished a few days, and expired. — It is remarked of him, that " he never said a foolish thing nor ever did a wise one." He was affable and witty ; unprincipled and selfish ; a papist at heart, and dissolute in his habits.... | |
 | Joseph Jones - 1852 - 80 pages
...designs, he was seized with illness, languished a few days, and expired. — It is remarked of him, that " he never said a foolish thing nor ever did a wise one." He was affable and witty ; unprincipled and selfish ; a papist at heart, and dissolute in his habits.... | |
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Here lies a great and mighty king Whose promise none relies on; He never said a foolish thing, Nor ever did a wise one. 
