 | Old Humphrey - London (England) - 1799 - 372 pages
...of the earth seek the glory of the Lord of heaven! The inscription on one of these tombs, o " Life's a jest, and all things show it; I thought so once, but now 1 know it," has led to the very suitable reflection :— "Life is a solemn scene ; this Gay now knows;... | |
 | James Hardie - Biography - 1801 - 536 pages
...was buried in Westminster Abbey with this epitaph, written by himself, engraved on his tomb :— " Life is a jest, and all things sho.w it; " I thought so once ; but now J know it." GESNER, (SOLOMON) the celebrated author of the death of Abel, and many other admired works... | |
 | Panorama - Epigrams, English - 1809 - 368 pages
...from what thou shall print; There may be a little from what thou may'st swear. GAY'S EPITAPH. LlFE is a jest; and all things show it; I thought so once; but now I know it* UPON ONE STEALING A POUND OF CANDLES. LlGHT-FINGER'D Catch, to keep his hands in ure, Stole any thing:... | |
 | Benjamin Silliman - Great Britain - 1812 - 340 pages
...inscriptions upon them. On the latter is : " O rare Ben. Jonson !" On the former— " Lifi; is a joke, and all things show it; I thought so once, but now I know it." Surely a sepulchral monument is the last place on which a witticism ought to appear. The chapel of... | |
 | George Theodore Wilkinson - 1820 - 464 pages
...modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, He can't be wrong whose life is in the right. Life's but a jest, and all things show it, I thought so once, but now I know it! JT BRUNT, Tomer of London. The following verses were written by Brunt, in Newgate, on the Sunday evening,... | |
 | Benjamin Silliman - Great Britain - 1820 - 326 pages
...inscriptions upon them. On the latter is : " 0 rare Ben. Jonson !" On the former— " Life is a joke, and all things show it; I thought so once, but now I know it." Surely a sepulchral monument is the last place on which a witticism ought to appear. The chapel of... | |
 | Collection - 1821 - 336 pages
...Tragedies. JOHN GAY, Died December 4, 1732, aged 45. The short Epitaph on the front was written by himself, Life is a jest, and all things show it: I thought so once, but now I know it. Underneath are these verses by Mr. POPE- Of manners gentle, of affections mild, In wit a man, simplicity... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 272 pages
...the clouds was but comical. In this world she despised every soul she met here, And now she's in the' other, she thinks it but queer. MY OWN EPITAPH. LIFE...things show it; I thought so once, but now I know it. END OF VOL. XXVIII. ... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 322 pages
...life are often frivolons, and alwavs unwarrantable. THE FARMER AND THE HORSE. ' 'Tis a vain world, and all things show it; I thought so once, but now I know it 1 .' Ah! Gay! is thy poetic page The child of disappointed age ? Talk not of threescore years and ten,... | |
 | Collection - 1823 - 334 pages
...Tragedies. JOHN GAY, Died December 4, 1732, aged 45. The short Epitaph on the front mat written by himself, Life is a jest, and all things show it: I thought so once, but now I know it. Underneath are these verses by Mr. POPE- Of manners gentle, of affections mild, In wit a man, simplicity... | |
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other, she thinks it but queer. MY OWN EPITAPH. LIFE is a jest, and all things show it; I thought so once, but now I know it. 
