 | 1851 - 364 oldal
...The short epitaph on the front was written by himself. It is censured by some for its levity, — " 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, who lived always in great friendship with Mr. Gay : — "... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1851 - 882 oldal
...uncomfortable amount of a»c and veneration, we have a great deal of genuine love. The worthless couplet — " Life is a jest, and all things show it; I thought so once, but now I know it" — the mere expression of a mood of the poet's mind, should never have been placed on the monument,... | |
 | Andrew Dickinson - 1851 - 234 oldal
...literature in which he excelled. The short epitaph by himself has been censured for its profane levity : Life is a jest and all things show it : I thought so onoe, and now. I know it." Below this epitaph is another by his friend Pope. Next is ROWE, and his... | |
 | C. Gough - 1853 - 414 oldal
...mistook seventeen for seventy-one. EPITAPH. THE following pithy epitaph appears in a country churchyard : Life is a jest, and all things show it, I thought so once, but now I know it. CRITICISM. TRUE criticism is the application of taste and good sense to the several fine arts. The... | |
 | Benjamin Moran - 1853 - 446 oldal
...some of them labored. One, on the tomb of Gay, written by himself, struck me as too trifling : — "Life is a jest, and all things show it; I thought so once, and now I know it." The statue of the Bard of Avon holds a scroll in one hand, on which are engraved... | |
 | David W. Bartlett - 1853 - 352 oldal
...does everybody, — it is on the tomb of John Gay, and was written by himself. It is as follows : " Life is a jest, and all things show it : I thought so once, and now I know it " Not far from this shocking epitaph is the grave of the author of " The Seasons"—... | |
 | Alonzo Tripp - 1853 - 426 oldal
...creations of his immortal genius. Here, too, was Gay, with these odd lines engraved below his bust: — "Life is a jest, and all things show it; I thought so once, and now I know it." There was, also, old Ben Johnson, with a countenance expressive of profundity and... | |
 | John Gay - 1854 - 314 oldal
...despis'o very soul she met here, And now she 's in t'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. THE END. ... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1854 - 588 oldal
...sentiments, could have written the following epitaph, and ordered it to be chiseled on his monument ? — "Life is a jest, And all things show it ; I thought so once, But now I know it." Yet there it stands — at once a symbol of death and an abortive attempt at wit, courting a grin from... | |
 | John Gay - 1854 - 312 oldal
...versification, and a style of expression easy and apposite. The epitaph he proposed for himself, " Life's a jest, and all things show it ; I thought so once, but now I know it" — LIFE OF JOHN GAY, is the flippant tribute of folly to irreligion. His friends, " Charles and Catherine,... | |
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Life is a jest, and all things show it, I thought so once, but now I know it, with what more you may think proper. 
