| Old Humphrey - 1855 - 304 ページ
...of the earth seek the glory of the Lord of heaven ! The inscription on one of these tombs, "Life 'sa jest, and all things show it, I thought so once, and now I know it," has led to the very suitable reflection : — 1' Life is a solemn scene: this Gay now knows; Big with... | |
| 1855 - 532 ページ
...him — liked it not — and died." OAY. — WBITTEN BY "HIMSELF. (ENORAVED IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY.) "Life is a jest, and all things show it. I thought so once ; but now I know it." ON SIR FRANCIS DRAKE. "Sir Drake, whom well the world's end knew Which thou didat... | |
| James Thomson - 1856 - 346 ページ
...child. The epitaph in Westminster Abbey, written for and by himself, consists of the following lines : Life is a jest, and all things show it; I thought so once, and now I know It And polish'd Cornbury woos the willing Muse. Slow let us trace the matchless vale of Thames ; Fair... | |
| Andrew Dickinson - 1856 - 234 ページ
...literature in which he excelled. The short epitaph by himself has been censured for its profane levity : Life is a jest and all things show it : I thought so once, and now I know it." Below this epitaph is another by his friend Pope. Next is ROWE, and his only daughter, author of severs)... | |
| John Bartlett - 1856 - 660 ページ
...And when a lady 's in the case, You know all other things give place. Epitaph on Himself. Life 'sa jest, and all things show it ; I thought so once, and now I know it. LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGUE. 1690-1762. The Lady's Resolve. Let this great maxim be my virtue's guide,... | |
| H S Brooke - 1856 - 312 ページ
...author of the Beggar's Opera; the short and irreverent epitaph in front is his own composition : — " Life is a jest, and all things show it ; I thought so once ; but now I know it !" the verses beneath it, are by Pope. Statue of Addison, by Sir Richard Westmacott,... | |
| Octavia Walton Le Vert - 1857 - 356 ページ
...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 of " The Seasons,"... | |
| 1857 - 848 ページ
...clumsy compliment, there an irreverent sneer, and on one—Gay's monument—an irreligious scoff:— " Life is a jest, and all things show it; I thought so once, but now I know it." We have before us a thick folio volume by Tolderoy,—a collecVOL. VI.—NO. I.... | |
| Silvester Tissington - 1857 - 560 ページ
...buried in Westminster Abbey, where a monument, bearing the following inscription, is erected : — " Life is a jest, and all things show it ; I thought so once ; but now I know it. GAY, Of manners gentle, of affections mild ; In wit a man ; simplicity a child... | |
| Joseph Barlow Robinson - 1859 - 220 ページ
...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,... | |
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