...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.' 2 This careless laugher, to revenge himself on the minister, wrote the Beggars'...

...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'...

...continuing city here. I begin to look upon myself as one already dead, and desire, my dear Mr. Pope, whom I love as my own soul, if you survive me, as you certainly will, that you will, if a stone should mark the place of my grave, see these words put upon it: Life is a...

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...continuing city here. I begin to look upon myself as one already deud, and desire, my dear Mr. Pope, whom I love as my own soul, if you survive me, as you certainly will, that you will, if a stone should mark the place of my grave, see these words put upon it: Life is a...

...mourners. He had, two months before his death, desired " My dear Mr. Pope, whom I love as my own soul, ... if a stone shall mark the place of my grave, see these...words put upon it, Life is a jest, and all things shew it, I thought so once, and now I know it."' The epitaph now inscribed on his monument was written...

...light view of life. Oh terrible irony of that awful inscription on a tomb in Westminster Abbey,— "Life is a Jest, and all things show it; I thought so once, and now I know it." Ah! we feel how, on the contrary, thou hast now at last realized Life's terrible and eternal Earnest!...

...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,...

...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 ID great friendship...

...history:—how it was shown in the bitter epitaph which he had composed for his own tomb— " Life's a jest, and all things show it; I thought so once, and now I know it!" From this we drifted on to Gray's Elegy, through the near similarity of the two poets' names. "I think,"...