| Octavia Walton Le Vert - Europe - 1857 - 356 pages
...Faerie Queene," and not far off is one to the memory of John Gray ; the epitaph written by himself : "Life is a jest, and all things show it, — I thought so once, and now I know it." TOMBS OF GAT, THOMSON, AND OTHERS. 15 I passed on to the tomb of Thomson, author... | |
| John Gay - 1857 - 460 pages
...Pope de faire graver sur son tombeau pour épitaphe les deux vers suivants : " Life is a jest, and ail things show it ; I thought so once, but now I know it." " La vie est une farce, et tout le fait biea voir, Je le pensais jadis, et je le sais ce soir ! " ,... | |
| John Robinson Tait - Europe - 1859 - 172 pages
...Shakspeare ; and I road the irreverent epitaph of Gay, fhe author of the "Beggar's Opera," * • " Life is a jest, and all things show it, I thought so once, but now I know it." i Near by, also, I saw the monument to David Garrick, which Charles Lamb justly censures for its frivolous... | |
| Joseph Barlow Robinson - Epitaphs - 1859 - 220 pages
...unwholesome dew ; So fades the blossom on its early bed, When storms and tempests sear its tender head. 657. Life is a jest, and all things show it, I thought so once, but now I know it. JOHN GAY. 658. My life ! my love I my precious babe I How dear thou wast to me, That Mother only knows... | |
| Knightley William Horlock - 1859 - 332 pages
...to come—until arrived at years of discretion, when I suppose I shall exclaim,— " Life's a farce, and all things show it, I thought so once, but now I know it." Well, thank goodness, the castle party are on the wing, and I wish them joy of their drive home, with... | |
| 1860 - 836 pages
...attempted unimproved. John Gay's monument is on the left of this, with those foolish lines as an epitaph: "Life is a jest, and all things show it; I thought so once, but now I know it." It seems unjust to let this worthless couplet remain as an indication of the poet's character, whose... | |
| Richard Wright Procter - Poets, Scottish - 1860 - 182 pages
...any painful emotions of remorse, which only serve to feed melancholy, and nurse despondence. ' Life's a jest, and all things show it ; I thought so once, but now I know it.' Too much care cankers the soul, and incessant labour undermines the stoutest constitution. So, too... | |
| James Ewing Ritchie - Politicians - 1861 - 314 pages
...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... | |
| Universalism - 1861 - 692 pages
...actors; Exit Burbage. The couplet, on a monument to John Gay, is hardly suited to a Christian church: Life is a jest, and all things show it, I thought so once, and now I know it. We close the list with one taken from the Potter's field at Yorkville, Canada West,... | |
| David W. Bartlett - Great Exhibition - 1861 - 386 pages
...it does everybody,—it is on the tomb of John Gay, and was written by himself. It is as follows : " Life is a jest, and all things show it: I thought so once, and now I know it." Not far from this shocking epitaph is the grave of the author of " The Seasons"—James... | |
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