 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
 | Richard E. Schade - 1990 - 358 էջ
...Opera, preferred to let people think he died laughing, as we see from the epitaph he wrote for himself: Life is a jest, and all things show it; I thought so once, and now I know it. 36 In some geographical areas on the continent, it was most important that Martin Luther (1483—1546)... | |
 | Joshua Scodel - 1991 - 448 էջ
...of the letter, Gay requested that Pope make sure that Gay's monument be inscribed with the epitaph, "Life is a Jest, and all Things show it; / I thought so once, but now I know it," and "what more" Pope should "think proper." 9 " Pope seems to have responded to... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 էջ
...Night would kiss and play, If with me you'd fondly stray Over the Hills and far away. My Own Epitaph 6 Life is a jest; and all things show it. I thought so once; but now I know it. (1. 1-2) FaBoEE; FF; NIP; NOEC, OBD; SeCePo Sweet William's Farewell to Black-eyed... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 2007 - 764 էջ
...Bertolt Brecht into Der Dreigroschenop¿er) and for his own epitaph in Westminster Abbey—”Life is a jest, and all things show it; / I thought so once and now I know it”—fused his talents for burlesque and the observation of low life in Trivia; or, TheArt of Walking... | |
 | Robert H. Bremner - 260 էջ
..."The World Is All Alike" John Gay (1685-1732) wrote his own epitaph twelve years before his death: Life is a jest and all things show it; I thought so once, but now I know it. The jest in Gay's "Beggar's Opera" is the "similitude of manners" among denizens... | |
 | Wayne C. Booth - 1996 - 344 էջ
...—Dwight D. Eisenhower Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions. Life is a jest; and all things show it. I thought so once; but now I know it. —John Gay, "My Own Epitaph" CROSSING THE BORDER Senescence begins And middle age... | |
 | Sarah Harriet Burney - 1997 - 622 էջ
...to Cornelia Cambridge, [nd], Berg). 3. The lines composed byJohn Gay (1685—173 2) for his epitaph, “Life is a Jest, and all Things show it; / I thought so once, but now I know it,” were placed upon his monument in Poets' Corner, Westminster Abbey. 4. Two years... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 էջ
...girl. CHARLIE CHAPLIN, (1889-1977) British comic actor, filmmaker. My Autobiography, ch. 10(1964). Life is a jest; and all things show it. I thought so once; but now I know it. JOHN GAY, (1685-1732) British dramatist, poet. "My Own Epitaph" (1720). Words inscribed... | |
 | John McRae - 1998 - 172 էջ
...descried; Successful crimes alone are justified Activity Text: Poems (i)-(x) (ix) Commentary Activity (vi) Life is a jest; and all things show it. I thought so once; but now I know it. (vii) I am a rock. (viii) My love is like a red, red rose. Man is Heaven's masterpiece.... | |
 | Cedric A. Mims, Cedric Mims - 2000 - 398 էջ
...under the sun. The English poet and playwright John Gay (1685-1732) wrote his own irreligious epitaph: Life is a jest; and all things show it. I thought so once; but now I know it. Death as it Seems to Children Children are said to become aware of death from about... | |
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