 | Walter Hamilton - Poets laureate - 1879 - 346 pages
...and ridicule was heaped on Gibber simply because he accepted an office that others had degraded. " 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... | |
 | National Sunday school union - 1879 - 598 pages
...Cibber sing, For Nature formed the Poet for tbe King." Another on the same subject runs thus : — " In merry old England it once was a rule, The king had bis poet and also his fool, Bat now we're so frugal, I'd have yon to know it, That Cibber can serve... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - Great Britain - 1887 - 482 pages
...Among the poetic lampoons on Cibber, one is quoted by Cibber in his first ' Letter to Pope," p. 89 : In merry Old England it once was a rule The king had his poet and also bis fool ; But now we're so frugal, I'd have you to know it, That Cibber can serve both for fool... | |
 | Caroline Alice White - Hampstead (London, England) - 1900 - 416 pages
...epigram of his own, the reading of which occasioned hilarious laughter. The lines ran as follows : ' 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... | |
 | Literature - 1906 - 856 pages
...ended by becoming Poet Laureate in 1730, and was the subject of a lampoon said to have written by Pope: In merry old England it once was a rule The King had his poet as well as his fool; But now we're so frugal, I'd like you to know it, That Cibber can serve both for... | |
 | Elsie M. Lang - History - 1907 - 424 pages
...number of plays, and in 1730 was created Poet Laureate. Pope satirised him in the following lines: — " In merry old England it once was a rule The King had his poet as well as his fool ; But now we're so frugal, I'd like you to know it, That Gibber can serve both... | |
 | Sir Algernon West - Great Britain - 1908 - 302 pages
...becoming Poet Laureate in 1730, and was the subject of a lampoon said to have been written by Pope : — " In merry old England it once was a rule The King had his poet as well as his fool ; But now we're so frugal, I'd like you to know it, That Gibber can serve both... | |
 | Stephen Phillips, Galloway Kyle - Poetry - 1915 - 652 pages
...called him a blockhead ; Fielding taunted him with writing bad English ; Swift and others lampooned him. In merry Old England it once was a rule The King had his poet and also his fool ; But now we're so frugal, Fd have you to know it That Gibber can serve both for fool... | |
 | William Forbes Gray - English poetry - 1914 - 386 pages
...epithets were showered upon him. One of his rivals heralded his elevation to the Laureateship thus — 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... | |
 | Great Britain - 1922 - 1578 pages
...Among the poetic lampoons on Gibber, one is quoted by Gibber in his first ' Letter to Pope,' p. 39 : 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... | |
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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. 
