 | Mrs. A. T. Thomson - Authors, English - 1862 - 346 pages
...' I love as my own soul ' — if a stone should mark his grave, to write on it these lines : — ' Life is a jest, and all things show it, I thought so once, but now I know it.' ' There is none like you, living or dead,' were Gay's last words to his ever kind friend. Pope wrote... | |
 | John Cooper Grocott - 1863 - 562 pages
...Life is a navigation. SENECA.— Of a Happy Life, Chap. XXI. Life's a tragedy. SIB WALTER RALEIGH. Life is a jest, and all things show it : I thought so once, but now I know it. GAY.— "My Own Epitaph." Life is but a day at most. BcRN8. — Friars' Carse Hermitage. Longest life... | |
 | 1864 - 694 pages
...startling a contrast, one is tempted U> иу, in the flippant words of Gay's neighbouring epitaph : " Iiife is a jest, and all things show it; I thought so once, and now I know it." It may be doubted, after all, whether the tombs before us may not preach the old... | |
 | Anonymous - History - 1865 - 602 pages
...the half-joking, half-melancholy inscriptions on some Greek sepulchres, as Gay's own on himself:— ' Life is a jest, and all things show it : I thought so once, but now I know it.' The famous distich of Pope on Sir Isaac Newton is one of the grandest we know, but is scarcely referable... | |
 | John Booth - Epigrams - 1865 - 400 pages
...fears the end ; Who has the worst still hopes his game will mend. Mock Epitaph on Gay, by himself. Life is a jest, and all things show it : I thought so once, but now I know it. On the magnificent Bridge built by John first Duke of Marlborough over a small Rivulet in Blenheim... | |
 | English literature - 1865 - 600 pages
...the half-joking, half-melancholy inscriptions on some Greek sepulchres, as Gay's own on himself:— ' Life is a jest, and all things show it: I thought so once, but now I know it.' The famous distich of Pope on Sir Isaac Newton is one of the grandest we know, but is scarcely referable... | |
 | Epigrams - 1865 - 398 pages
...fears the end ; Who has the worst still hopes his game will mend. Mock Epitaph on Gay, by himself. Life is a jest, and all things show it : I thought so once, but now I know it. On the magnificent Bridge built by John first Duke of Marlborough over a small Rivulet in Blenheim... | |
 | James Henry - 1866 - 242 pages
...portion 6f God's graces, for her 6wn share." ROSAMOND , RATHOAR ROAD , DUHLIN , March 23, 1860. 17 "Life is a jest, and all things show it; I thought so once, but now I know it." Gay's Epitaph. 1ms life 'sa jest, you wicked poet; Living, you thought so; dead, you know 'it. But... | |
 | Edward St. John- Brenon - 1867 - 148 pages
...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... | |
 | John Alfred Langford - Birmingham (England) - 1868 - 578 pages
...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... | |
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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. 
