| Mrs. A. T. Thomson - Authors, English - 1862 - 346 pages
...' 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 pages
...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 pages
...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 - Quotations - 1865 - 504 pages
...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, — In... | |
| English literature - 1865 - 600 pages
...the half-joking, half-melancholy inscriptions on some Greek sepulchres, as Gay's own on himself:— ' Life is a jest, and all things show it: I thought so once, but now I know it.' The famous distich of Pope on Sir Isaac Newton is one of the grandest we know,... | |
| John Booth - Epigrams - 1865 - 400 pages
...fears the end ; Who has the worst still hopes his game will mend. Mock Epitaph on Gay, by himself. Life is a jest, and all things show it : I thought so once, but now I know it. On the magnificent Bridge built by John first Duke of Marlborough over a small Rivulet... | |
| Anonymous - History - 1865 - 602 pages
...the half-joking, half-melancholy inscriptions on some Greek sepulchres, as Gay's own on himself:— ' Life is a jest, and all things show it : I thought so once, but now I know it.' The famous distich of Pope on Sir Isaac Newton is one of the grandest we know,... | |
| Epigrams - 1865 - 398 pages
...fears the end ; Who has the worst still hopes his game will mend. Mock Epitaph on Gay, by himself. Life is a jest, and all things show it : I thought so once, but now I know it. On the magnificent Bridge built by John first Duke of Marlborough over a small Rivulet... | |
| James Henry - 1866 - 242 pages
...portion 6f God's graces, for her 6wn share." ROSAMOND , RATHOAR ROAD , DUHLIN , March 23, 1860. 17 "Life is a jest, and all things show it; I thought so once, but now I know it." Gay's Epitaph. 1ms life 'sa jest, you wicked poet; Living, you thought so; dead,... | |
| Henry George Bohn - Quotations - 1867 - 752 pages
...the race of man below, Is, in proportion, doom'd to taste some sorrow. Rowe, Lady Jane Grey, Life's a jest, and all things show it ; I thought so once, and now I know it. Gay, Ep. on Himsetf, Live while you live, the epicure would say, And seize the pleasures of the present... | |
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