 | Clyve Jones, David L. Jones - History - 1986 - 604 pages
...House's proceedings as "only helping one another to do nothing," paraphrasing Gay: "Its all a Farce & all things show it I thought so once but now I know it" (Ibid., f. 115). 84. It is interesting to note in this regard that only six of the thirty-three Scots... | |
 | Wayne C. Booth - Business & Economics - 1988 - 576 pages
...matter how skillful your result, it will almost certainly pale beside John Gay's "My Own Epitaph": Life is a jest; and all things show it. I thought so once; but now I know it. Life and the death that life entails are — need one say it? — more fully epitomized as a jest than... | |
 | Richard E. Schade - Literary Criticism - 1990 - 358 pages
...Opera, preferred to let people think he died laughing, as we see from the epitaph he wrote for himself: Life is a jest, and all things show it; I thought so once, and now I know it.36 In some geographical areas on the continent, it was most important that Martin... | |
 | Tripp Evans, Andrew Frothingham - Humor - 1992 - 178 pages
...damnably moldy a hundred years hence. • "Remember the poor — it costs nothing." — Josh Billings • "Life is a jest, and all things show it — I thought so once, but now I know it." — John Gay • To procrastination, which has saved us from innumerable mistakes. • Here's to the... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...lullaby. (1. 7-8) AAS; EBEV; E1L; HAP; InvP; NAEL-1; NoP; OBEY; PoEL-1; QFR; TrGrPo My Own Epitaph 6 which walls about our life Were brass impregnable; and humored thus. Comes at (1. 1-2) FaBoEE; FF; NIP; NOEC, OBD; SeCePo JOHN GAY (1685-1732) Ads and Galatea 1 O ruddier than the... | |
 | Robert H. Bremner - Social Science - 260 pages
..."The World Is All Alike" John Gay (1685-1732) wrote his own epitaph twelve years before his death: Life is a jest and all things show it; I thought so once, but now I know it. The jest in Gay's "Beggar's Opera" is the "similitude of manners" among denizens of high and low life.... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 764 pages
...(adapted by Bertolt Brecht into Der Dreigroschenoper) and for his own epitaph in Westminster Abbey — "Life is a jest, and all things show it; / I thought so once and now I know it" — fused his talents for burlesque and the observation of low life in Trivia; or,... | |
 | Robert Andrews - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1997 - 666 pages
...girl. CHARLIE CHAPLIN, (1889-1977) British comic actor, filmmaker. My Autobiography, ch. 10(1964). Life is a jest; and all things show it. I thought so once; but now I know it. JOHN GAY, (1685-1732) British dramatist, poet. "My Own Epitaph" (1720). Words inscribed on Cay's monument... | |
 | Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...sighed, he loved, was scorned and 3849Dione A woman's friendship ever ends in love. 3850 'My Own Epitaph are ashamed To 3851 Fables "The Dog and the Fox' { know you lawyers can, with ease, Twist words and meanings as you... | |
 | Connie Robertson - Humor - 1998 - 404 pages
...victim of Parthenia's pride! He saw, he sighed, he loved, was scorned and died. 1553 'My Own Epitaph' Life is a jest; and all things show it. I thought so once; but now I know it. 1554 Fables 'The Dog and the Fox' I know you lawyers can. with ease. Twist words and meanings as you... | |
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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. 
