 | Edward St. John- Brenon - 1867 - 148 pagina’s
...and power, A seeming fortress, but within a tomb, Containing relics of man's certain doom. ******* H Life is a jest, and all things show it ; I thought so once, but now I know it. Gay's Epitaph. ' I VHE sea was calm, the breeze was mild, On all mankind the summer smiled ; As many... | |
 | Metrical epitaphs - 1868 - 266 pagina’s
...From all his ill-got honours flung, Turn'd to that dirt from whence he sprung. ON GAY," BY HIMSELF. LIFE is a jest, and all things show it ; I thought so once, but now I know it. ON GAY. WELL then, poor Gay lies underground ! So there's an end of honest Jack. So little justice... | |
 | John Alfred Langford - 1868 - 578 pagina’s
...to the Book Club, we may be excused for quoting here. He selects for a motto the two lines of Gay— Life is a Jest, and all Things show it ; I thought so once, but now I know it. On which the aged rhymester thus moralises :— On cool reflection, so said GAT, Yet had he gaily been... | |
 | James Ewing Ritchie - 1869 - 448 pagina’s
...illusion which, in a manner most wonderful, his lordship 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," will be an appropriate epitaph wherewith to deck the marble monument that the grateful... | |
 | Henry Crabb Robinson - 1869 - 628 pagina’s
...to so anti-religious a poet as Byron may be admitted where the inscription is allowed to stand, — Life is a jest, and all things show it, I thought so once, and now I know it. Bunsen told Wordsworth that Lord Byron had an im• Probably " How profitless the... | |
 | Henry Philip Dodd - 1870 - 652 pagina’s
...Twickenham Church. Several poets wrote such mock epitaphs for themselves. Gay's is well known : Life is ft jest, and all things show it: I thought so once, but now I know it. Samuel Wesley, the usher of Westminster School, rejoiced in his rest: Here Wesley lies in quiet rest,... | |
 | Epigrammatists - 1870 - 654 pagina’s
...in Twickenham Church. Several poets wrote such mock epitaphs for themselves. Gay's is well known : Life is a jest, and all things show it; I thought so ouce, but now I know it Samuel Wesley, the usher of Westminster School, rejoiced in his rest: Here... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1871 - 586 pagina’s
...that he could get nothing from the court, whether he wrote for or against it.' And he wrote his own epitaph: ' Life is a jest; and all things show it, I thought so once ; but now I know it.'* This careless laugher, to revenge himself on the minister, wrote the Beggars' Opera, the fiercest and... | |
 | Hippolyte Adolphe Taine - 1871 - 570 pagina’s
...that he could get nothing from the court, whether he wrote for or against it.' And he wrote his own epitaph : ' Life is a jest ; and all things! show it, I thought so once ; but now I know it. ' 3 This careless laugher, to revenge himself on the minister, wrote the Beggars' Opera, the fiercest... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1871 - 540 pagina’s
...certainly will, that you will, if a stone should mark the place of my grave, see these words put upon it : 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. If anybody should 1 This letter appears in Ayre's Life and they... | |
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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. 
