 | Alexander Pope, William Charles Macready - 1849 - عدد الصفحات: 646
...successor, Mr. Cibber, and is further strengthened in the following epigram, made on that occasion : In merry old England it once was a rule, The king had his poet, and also his fool ; But now we're so frugat, I'd have you to know it, That Cibber can serve both for fool... | |
 | 1875 - عدد الصفحات: 572
[ عذرًا، محتوى هذه الصفحة مقيَّد ] | |
 | 1853 - عدد الصفحات: 436
[ عذرًا، محتوى هذه الصفحة مقيَّد ] | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1853 - عدد الصفحات: 336
...successor, Mr. Cibber, and is further strengthened in the following epigram, made on that occasion : " In merry old England it once was a rule, The king had his poet, and also his fool ; But now we're so frugal, I'd have you to know it, That Cibber can serve both for fool... | |
 | Chambers's journal - 1863 - عدد الصفحات: 432
...following epigram on CoUey Gibber, who was born in 1671, shews that there was no court-fool in his day: In merry old England, it once was a rule, The king had his poet, and also his fool ; But now we 're so frugal, I 'd have you to know it, That Gibber can serve both for... | |
 | 1863 - عدد الصفحات: 888
...following epigram ou Colley ,Cibber, who was born in 1671, shews that there was no court-fool in his day: In merry old England, it once was a rule, The king had his poet, and also his fool ; But now we 're so frugal, I 'd have you to know it, That Gibber can serve both for... | |
 | Henry Philip Dodd - 1870 - عدد الصفحات: 652
...Dunces. It "was upon his attaining this high honour that the following well-known epigram was written : In merry old England it once was a rule, The king had his poet and also las fool : But now we're so frugal, I'd have you to know it, That Cibber can serve both for fool... | |
 | Epigrammatists - 1870 - عدد الصفحات: 654
...Dunces. It was upon his attaining this high honour that the following well-known epigram was written : In merry old England it once was a rule, The king had his poet and also his fool : But now we're so frugal, I'd have yon to know it, That Cibber can serve both for fool... | |
 | Charles Stokes Carey - 1872 - عدد الصفحات: 314
...f No I Prior's verse posterity shall quote, When 'tis forgot one Burnet ever wrote. COLLEY CIBBER. IN merry old England it once was a rule, The king had his poet, and also his fool, But now we're so frugal, I'd have you to know it, That Gibber can serve both for fool... | |
 | Joseph Woodfall Ebsworth - 1878 - عدد الصفحات: 712
...of Winchelsea, of Eastwell Park, Kent. Gay mentions her " still meditating song." "Collep Cibber's " In merry Old England it once was a rule, The King had his Poet, and also his Fool ; But now, we're so stupid, I'd have you to know it, That CIBBER can serve both for Fool... | |
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In merry old England it once was a rule, The King had his Poet, and also his Fool : But now we're so frugal, I'd have you to know it, That Cibber can serve both for Fool and for Poet. 
