 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 316 pages
...in life are often frivolous, and always unwarrantable. THE FARMER AND THE HORSE. ' Tis a vain world, and all things show it; I thought so once, but now I know it'.' Ah! Gay! is thy poetic page The child of disappointed age ? Talk not of threescore years and ten, For... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 322 pages
...life are often frivolous, and always unwarrantable. THE FARMER AND THE HORSE. ' 'Tis a vain world, and all things show it; I thought so once, but now I know it1.' Ah ! Gay ! is thy poetic page The child of disappointed age? Talk not of threescore years and... | |
 | English literature - 1832 - 698 pages
...conjnred up some fiend to lure me onwards to destruction ! — Oh, Paul, Paul ! save me!" " ' Life's a jest, and all things show it : I thought so once— but now I know it!'" Replied Paul, sarcastically, at this instance of attachment to life in one who bad so little to live... | |
 | George Lewis Smyth - 1826 - 524 pages
...condemned for its levity, and can never be relished for its point, is engraved upon the ledge: — Life is a jest, and all things show it; I thought so once, but now I know it. Underneath are the affectionate lines in which Pope essayed to commemorate his merits as an author,... | |
 | George Lewis Smyth - 1826 - 1042 pages
...often condemned for its levity, and can never be relished for its point, is engraved upon the ledge: . Life is a jest, and all things show it ; I thought so once, but now I know it. Underneath are the affectionate lines in which Pope essayed to commemorate his merits as an author,... | |
 | William Pulleyn - 1829 - 302 pages
...French thorough and thorough; He married Sarah Jennings, spinster, IN NEWINGTON CHURCH-YARD. Life's but a jest, And all things show it, — I thought so once, But now I know it.* IN NEWINGTON CHURCH-YARD, ON JAMES BLACKBURN, A BLACKSMITH. My sledge and hammer lie declin'd, My bellows,... | |
 | Periodicals - 1833 - 460 pages
...conjured up some fiend to lure me onwards to destruction ! — Oh, Paul, Paul ! save me !" " ' Life's a jest, and all things show it: I thought so once — but DOW I know it l' " replied Paul, sarcastically, at this instance of attachment to life in one who had... | |
 | John Landseer - Painting - 1834 - 534 pages
...The couplet which (copied from his own works) is inscribed on the tomb of our poetical fabulist— " Life is a. jest, and all things show it: I thought so once, and now—I know it," with the change of a single word, would not ill serve as an exposition—at least... | |
 | Charles Bucke - 1837 - 422 pages
...more idle heads than one : Even Gay took it up, and caused it to be placed on his tombstone. T/ife is a JEST, and all things show it, I thought so once ; but now I know it. This distich calls to my mind PEREDA'S picture of the Desengano de la Vida, at Madrid ; implying that... | |
 | Jeremiah Whitaker Newman - Commonplace-books - 1838 - 404 pages
...monumental inscription, and now appearing in golden letters on his tomb in Westminster Abbey: This world's n jest, and all things show it: I thought so once, but now I know it. A sentiment, in theory more false, and in practical influence more injurious, it is not easy to conceive;... | |
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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. 
