 | Curtis GUILD - 1871 - 578 ページ
...seasons are carved. Gay's is a Cupid, unveiling a medallion of the poet, and one of his couplets : — "Life is a jest, and all things show it; I thought so once, but now 1 know it." On a pedestal, around which are grouped the Nine Muses, stands the statue of Addison,... | |
 | John Conroy Hutcheson - 1873 - 302 ページ
...history: — how it was shown in the bitter epitaph which he had composed for his own tomb — " Life's a jest, and all things show it; I thought so once, and now I know it !" From this we drifted on to Gray's Elegy, through the near similarity of the two poets' names. "I... | |
 | Epitaphiana - 1873 - 214 ページ
...From Westminster Abbey. On JOHN GAY, the Poet, said to have been written by himself: — ty- 1 1 G t Life is a jest, and all things show it ; I thought so once, but now I know it; 172. By the Poet DRYDEN, on the tomb of his wife : — Here lies my wife, here let... | |
 | William Fairley - 1875 - 208 ページ
...clay. 171. From Westminster Abbey. On JOHN GAY, the Poet, said to have been written by himself: — Life is a jest, and all things show it ; I thought so once, but now I know it. 172. By the Poet DRYDEN, on the tomb of his wife : — Here lies my wife, here let... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1874 - 798 ページ
...continued.] And when a lady 's in the case, You know all other things give place. The Hare and many Friends. Life is a jest, and all things show it ; I thought so once, but now I know it. • My cnun Epitaph. LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU. 1690- 1762. Let this great maxim... | |
 | Thomas De Witt Talmage - 1874 - 466 ページ
...saw last summer, in Westminster Abbey, an epitaph which a poet ordered to be put upon his tomb:— "Life is a jest, And all things show it. I thought so once, But now I know it." I thought how inapt that, in a place of sepulture, men should try their witticisms.... | |
 | 1902 - 728 ページ
...all that was dear to them in order to do their duty, and to teach you to do yours. GAY'S EPITAPH " Life is a jest, and all things show it, I thought so once, and now I know it." — Epitaph of the poet Gay in Westminster Abbey. O GOOD sleek man, who looked from out a warm red-curtained... | |
 | Henry Philip Dodd - 1875 - 768 ページ
...iu Twickenham Church. Several poets wrote such mock epitaphs for themselves. Gay's is well known : Life is a jest, and all things show it; I thought so once, but now I know it. Samuel Wesley, the usher of Westminster School, rejoiced in his rent: Here Wesley... | |
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Life is a Jest, and all Things show it; I thought so once, but now I know it. 
