 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1854 - 588 pagina’s
...sentiments, could have written the following epitaph, and ordered it to be chiseled on his monument ? — "Life is a jest, And all things show it ; I thought so once, But now I know it." Yet there it stands — at once a symbol of death and an abortive attempt at wit, courting a grin from... | |
 | John Gay - 1854 - 300 pagina’s
...versification, and a style e expression easy and apposite. The epitaph he proposed for himself, " Life's a jest, and all things show it ; I thought so once, but now I know it" — in About BC 1209. Vide Judges, c. ix. is the flippant tribute of folly to irreligion. His friends,... | |
 | John Gay - 1854 - 312 pagina’s
...versification, and a style of expression easy and apposite. The epitaph he proposed for himself, " Life's a jest, and all things show it ; I thought so once, but now I know it" — LIFE OF JOHN GAY, is the flippant tribute of folly to irreligion. His friends, " Charles and Catherine,... | |
 | Alonzo Tripp - 1854 - 430 pagina’s
...creations of his immortal genius. Here, too, was Gay, with these odd lines engraved below his bust: — "Life is a jest, and all things show it; I thought so once, and now I know it." There was, also, old Ben Johnson, with a countenance expressive of profundity and... | |
 | 1855 - 532 pagina’s
...him — liked it not — and died." OAY. — WBITTEN BY "HIMSELF. (ENORAVED IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY.) "Life is a jest, and all things show it. I thought so once ; but now I know it." ON SIR FRANCIS DRAKE. "Sir Drake, whom well the world's end knew Which thou didat compass round, And... | |
 | 1855 - 784 pagina’s
...a manner most wonderful and unaccountable, Lord Palmerston has contrived to gather around his name. Life is a jest, and all things show it ; I thought so once, and now I know it, would lie an appropriate epitaph wherewith to «leek the marble monument that the... | |
 | H S Brooke - 1856 - 312 pagina’s
...author of the Beggar's Opera; the short and irreverent epitaph in front is his own composition : — " Life is a jest, and all things show it ; I thought so once ; but now I know it !" the verses beneath it, are by Pope. Statue of Addison, by Sir Richard Westmacott, erected 1809. Honorary... | |
 | James Thomson - 1856 - 346 pagina’s
...child. The epitaph in Westminster Abbey, written for and by himself, consists of the following lines : Life is a jest, and all things show it; I thought so once, and now I know It And polish'd Cornbury woos the willing Muse. Slow let us trace the matchless vale... | |
 | Andrew Dickinson - 1856 - 234 pagina’s
...literature in which he excelled. The short epitaph by himself has been censured for its profane levity : Life is a jest and all things show it : I thought so once, and now I know it." Below this epitaph is another by his friend Pope. Next is ROWE, and his only daughter,... | |
 | 1857 - 848 pagina’s
...clumsy compliment, there an irreverent sneer, and on one—Gay's monument—an irreligious scoff:— " Life is a jest, and all things show it; I thought so once, but now I know it." We have before us a thick folio volume by Tolderoy,—a collecVOL. VI.—NO. I. 11 tion of such epitaphs... | |
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Life is a jest, and all things show it, I thought so once, but now I know it, with what more you may think proper. 
