 | John Robinson Tait - 1859 - 172 ページ
...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... | |
 | 1860 - 836 ページ
...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... | |
 | David W. Bartlett - 1861 - 386 ページ
...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 Thomson. And... | |
 | James Ewing Ritchie - 1861 - 314 ページ
...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 nation shall... | |
 | 1861 - 692 ページ
...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, written by the... | |
 | Mrs. A. T. Thomson - 1862 - 346 ページ
...' 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... | |
 | John Cooper Grocott - 1863 - 562 ページ
...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.... | |
 | 1864 - 694 ページ
...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 motto of Vanitas Vanitatum,... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1865 - 504 ページ
...when a lady 's in the case, You know all other things give place. The Hare and mang Friends. Life 'sa jest, and all things show it ; I thought so once, and now I know it. Epitaph on Himself. LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGUE. 1690-1762. Let this great maxim be my virtue's guide,... | |
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Life is a Jest, and all Things show it; I thought so once, but now I know it. 
