 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 - Էջ 108Laurence Hutton - 1892 - 367 էջԱմբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
 | Arthur Penrhyn Stanley - 1868 - 642 էջ
...amongst the mourners. 4 He had already, two months before his death, desired — My dear Mr. Pope, whom I love as my own soul, if you survive me, as you certainly...Life is a jest, and all things show it ; I thought it once, but now I know it, with what else you may think proper. His wish was complied with. 5 The... | |
 | John Alfred Langford - 1868 - 578 էջ
...to the Book Club, we may be excused for quoting here. He selects for a motto the two lines of Gay— Life is a Jest, and all Things show it ; I thought so once, but now I know it. On which the aged rhymester thus moralises :— On cool reflection, so said GAT,... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1868 - 794 էջ
...continued.] And when a lady 's in thè case, You know all other things give place. The Hare and many Friends. Life is a jest, and all things show it ; I thought so once, but now I know it. My own Epitaph. LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGUE. 1690- 1762. Let this great maxim be... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1868 - 806 էջ
...continued.] And when a lady 's in the case, You know all other things give place. The Hare and many Friends. Life is a jest, and all things show it ; I thought so once, but now I know it. My awn Epitaph. LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGUE. 1690- 1762. Let this great maxim be... | |
 | Henry Crabb Robinson - 1869 - 620 էջ
...to so anti-religious a poet as Byron may be admitted where the inscription is allowed to stand,— Life is a jest, and all things show it, I thought so once, and now I know it. Bunsen told Wordsworth that Lord Byron had an imCHAP. iv. 1837Dinner at Bunsen's. Thorwalascn's studio.... | |
 | Henry Crabb Robinson - 1869 - 628 էջ
...to so anti-religious a poet as Byron may be admitted where the inscription is allowed to stand,— Life is a jest, and all things show it, I thought so once, and now I know it. Bunsen told Wordsworth that Lord Byron had an im• Probably " How profitless the relics that we cull."... | |
 | Treasury - 1869 - 474 էջ
...when a lady's in the case, You know all other things give place. The Hare and many Friends. Life's a jest, and all things show it ; I thought so once, and now I know it. Epitaph on Himself. * The midnight oil was a common phrase; it is used by Shenstone, Cowper, Lloyd,... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1870 - 802 էջ
...303 And when a lady 's in thè case, You know all other things give place. The Hare and many Friends. Life is a jest, and all things show it ; I thought so once, but now I know it. My own Epitaph. LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGUE. 1690- 1762. Let this great maxim be... | |
 | Epigrammatists - 1870 - 654 էջ
...Warburton in Twickenham Church. Several poets wrote such mock epitaphs for themselves. Gay's is well known: Life is a jest, and all things show it; I thought so once, but now I know it. Samuel Wesley, the usher of Westminster School, rejoiced in his rest: Here Wesley... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1871 - 586 էջ
...could get nothing from the court, whether he wrote for or against it.' And he wrote his own epitaph: ' Life is a jest; and all things show it, I thought so once ; but now I know it.'* This careless laugher, to revenge himself on the minister, wrote the Beggars'... | |
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