| Wilbur Fisk - Europe - 1838 - 742 pages
...epitaphs ; among others, the facetious poet, John Gay, has the following, written by himself : — " Life is a jest, and all things show it; I thought so once, and now I know it" Not so — by this time he has doubtless discovered that life is a momentous reality... | |
| Thomas Allen - London (England) - 1839 - 604 pages
...door is a monument to the memory f Gay; consisting of a pyramid, medallion, and boy, on a pelestal. Life is a jest, and all things show it, I thought so once, hut now I know it. Of manners gentle, of affections mild, In wit a man, simplicity a child. With native... | |
| Wilbur Fisk - Europe - 1839 - 754 pages
...epitaphs ; among others, the facetious poet, John Gay, has the following, written by himself : — " Life is a jest, and all things show it; I thought so once, and now I know it" Not so — by this time he has doubtless discovered that life is a momentous reality... | |
| Westminster abbey - 1841 - 214 pages
...pastoral. The short epitaph on the front was written by himself. It is censured by some for its levity — Life is a jest, and all things show it: I thought so once, but now I know it. Underneath are these verses by Mr. Pope, who lived always in great friendship with Mr. Gay : — Of... | |
| Charles Edwards Lester - England - 1842 - 294 pages
...monument is an epitaph written by himself, which is no less shocking to good taste than to religion : " Life is a jest, and all things show it : I thought so once, and now 1 know it." John Gay was considered a sensible man; but he has probably had occasion to change... | |
| 1844 - 142 pages
...pastoral. The short epitaph on the front was written by himself. It is censured by some for its levity — Life is a jest, and all things show it: I thought so once, but now I know it. Underneath are these verses by Mr. Pope, who lived always in great friendship with Mr. Gay : — Of... | |
| 1844 - 320 pages
...— nimiely farce, satire, fable, and pastoral : — \-.. „ . • Vt'.hi » v••,i«' '.'.'. . Life is a jest, and all things show It : '' I thought so once, hut now I know it. Underneath are these verses by Pope : — Of manners gentle, of affections mild... | |
| Leopold von Orlich - 1845 - 342 pages
...contented, how many dissatisfied ! The epitaph in Westminster Abbey involuntarily rose to my mind : " Life is a jest*, and all things show it : I thought so once, but now I know it." The rising sun on the 30th of July was the harbinger of * Would not dream be a more appropriate word... | |
| Leopold von Orlich - India - 1845 - 306 pages
...contented, how many dissatisfied ! The epitaph in Westminster Abbey involuntarily rose to my mind : " Life is a jest*, and all things show it : I thought so once, but now I know it." The rising sun on the 30th of July was the harbinger of * Would not dream be a more appropriate word... | |
| 1876 - 818 pages
...cynical mood, summed up his experience in the following couplet, intended for his epitaph : — . " Life is a jest, and all things show it : I thought so once, but now I know it." We cannot let that couplet go without saying that life is a stern sort of jesting — that life is... | |
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