 love as my own soul : if you survive me, as you certainly will, if a stone shall mark the place of my grave, see these words put upon it : — "Life is a jest and all things show it : I thought so once, and now I know it,  Literary Landmarks of London - الصفحة 108بواسطة Laurence Hutton - 1892 - عدد الصفحات: 367عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
 | Oliver Optic - 1870 - عدد الصفحات: 974
...Harrison. Not so bad as that, doctor; but what's the use to fret? As the poet Gay eaye, — " Life's a jest, and all things show it; I thought so once, and now I know it." Dr. Sieele. H'm ! he carries the joke a little too far. Harrison. Shall I trouble you for that twine,... | |
 | Epitaphiana - 1873 - عدد الصفحات: 214
...From Westminster Abbey. On JOHN GAY, the Poet, said to have been written by himself:— fjj- 1 1 fi 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... | |
 | Curtis Guild - 1874 - عدد الصفحات: 592
...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 I know it." On a pedestal, around which are grouped the Nine Muses, stands the statue of Addison,... | |
 | Thomas De Witt Talmage - 1874 - عدد الصفحات: 466
...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.... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1875 - عدد الصفحات: 794
...where thousands meet, but none can stay ; An inn where travellers bait, then post away. FRANCtS FAWKES. Life is a jest, and all things show it; I thought so once, but now I know iL GAY : tfy тип Epitaph. How short is life ! Why will vain courtiers toil, And crowd... | |
 | Arthur Penrhyn Stanley - 1876 - عدد الصفحات: 680
...months before his death, desired— My dear Mr. Pope, whom I love as my own soul, if you survive me, i» you certainly will, if a stone shall mark the place of my grave, see thae words put upon it— Life is a jest, and all things show it; I thought it once, but now I know... | |
 | 1877 - عدد الصفحات: 362
...Say not " good night," but in some brighter clime Bid me "good morning."—Mrs. BAKRAULU, Life. — LIFE is a jest, and all things show it ; I thought so once, but now I know it. J. GAY, My man Kpitnph, — LIFE is a shuttle. — SHAKESPERE, Merry Wises. —... | |
 | Henry Crabb Robinson - 1877 - عدد الصفحات: 1100
...a poet as Byron may be admitted where the inscription is allowed to stand, — Life is a jest, nnd all things show it, I thought so once, and now I know it. Bunsen told Wordsworth that Lord Byron had an impression he was the offspring of a demon. In a morbid... | |
 | Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - 1878 - عدد الصفحات: 556
...in Queensberry's ducal halls." Under a medallion portrait of the poet are his own strange lines— " Life is a jest, and all things show it, I thought so once, and now I know it." And beneath is an epitaph by Pope, who was his intimate friend. Oliver Goldsmith, 1774, buried at the... | |
 | English epigrams - 1878 - عدد الصفحات: 464
...the New Church burying-ground of Dundee, to the memory of one "JR"] DCXXXVIII. AN EPITAPH ON HIMSELF. Life is a jest, and all things show it: I thought so once, and now I know it. John Gay (1688-1732). DCXXXIX. ENGRAVED ON THE COLLAR OF A DOG WHICH HE GAVE TO His ROYAL HIGHNESS.... | |
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