 | Henry Philip Dodd - 1875 - 748 oldal
...Twickenham Church. Several poets wrote such mock epitaphs for themselves. G»y's ia well known : Li e ia a jest, and all things show it; I thought so once, but now I know it. Samuel Wesley, tlie usher of Westminster School, rejoiced in his rent: Here Wesley lies in quiet rest,... | |
 | 1877 - 362 oldal
...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. — LIFE iи us tedious... | |
 | Charles John Abbey - 1878 - 606 oldal
...desire (though, it may have been in a despondent moment) to have placed over his remains the flippant epitaph :— Life is a jest, and all things show it; I thought so once, but now I know it 2 Tickcll should be mentioned in this chapter on account of his elegy 3 on his friend Addison. Dr.... | |
 | G.W. Carleton & Co - 1878 - 360 oldal
...not " good night," but in some brighter clime Bid me " good morning. "—Mrs. BAIUÍAULD, Life. — LIFE is a jest, and all things show it ; I thought so once, but now I know it. J. GAY, My own Epita/ph. — LIFE is a shuttle.—SHAKESPEKE, Merry Wives. — LIFE is as tedious as... | |
 | Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - 1878 - 556 oldal
...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,... | |
 | Anecdotes - 1878 - 296 oldal
...an illustrious English poet, political, satirical, and miscellaneous writer, born 1667, died 1745. " Life is a jest, and all things show it ; I thought so once ; now I know it." Qui me seraient revenus à deux shillings, for which I should have paid two shillings.... | |
 | Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - 1878 - 532 oldal
...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,... | |
 | English epigrams - 1878 - 464 oldal
...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... | |
 | John Gay - 1879 - 606 oldal
...clouds was but comical. In this world she despis'd every soul she met here, And now she's in t'other, she thinks it but queer. MY OWN EPITAPH. LIFE is a...things show it; I thought so once, but now I know it. THE END. 31 : 3 2044 055 328 611 • •""••••" mil inn inn mil Hill IIIIMIIIMIIII III) IHI... | |
 | Wayne C. Booth - 1988 - 576 oldal
...one of these, and no matter how skillful your result, it will almost certainly pale beside John Gay's “My Own Epitaph”: Life is a jest; and all things show it. I thought so once; but now I know it. Life and the death that life entails are—need one say it?—more fully epitomized as a jest than... | |
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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. 
