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" Life is a Jest, and all Things show it; I thought so once, but now I know it. "
The Glory and Shame of England - الصفحة 76
بواسطة Charles Edwards Lester - 1866
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A New Biographical Dictionary: Containing a Brief Account of the Lives and ...

Stephen Jones - 1799 - عدد الصفحات: 456
...himself) engraved 1654. on his tomb : GATAKER (CHARLES) son of the preceding, and a writer on con-* Life is a jest, and all things show it; I thought so once, hut now I know it." 'troversial divinity, born i6i4,dted GAZA (THEODORE) a very 1680. eminent grammarian,...

The New Universal Biographical Dictionary, and American ..., المجلد 2

James Hardie - 1801 - عدد الصفحات: 526
...was buried in Westminster Abbey with this epitaph, written by himself, engraved on his tomb : — " Life is a jest, and all things show it ; " I thought so once ; but now I know it." o ft GESNER, (SOLOMON) the celebrated author of the death of Abel, and many other...

Voyage en Angleterre, pendant les anneés 1810 et 1811: avec des ..., المجلد 2

Louis Simond - 1817 - عدد الصفحات: 478
..., dont le style est trop léger pour le lieu et pour le sujet , et qui sentent un peu l'impiété : Life is a jest and all things show it, I thought so once , but now I know it. Les soins qui occupent la vie du commun des hommes peuvent bien être vains et...

Curiosities for the Ingenious: Selected from the Most Authentic Treasures of ...

J. Taylor - 1822 - عدد الصفحات: 220
...holy text around she strews ' To teach the rustic moralist to die." When we meet with such lines as " Life is a jest, and all things show it, I thought so once, but now I know it." we are inclined to think the witty author of them had no other intention than that...

The monuments and genii of st. Paul's cathedral and of Westminster ..., المجلد 2

George Lewis Smyth - 1826 - عدد الصفحات: 524
...condemned for its levity, and can never be relished for its point, is engraved upon the ledge: — Life is a jest, and all things show it; I thought so once, but now I know it. Underneath are the affectionate lines in which Pope essayed to commemorate his merits...

The Monuments and Genii of St.Paul's and Westminster Abbey: Comprising Naval ...

George Lewis Smyth - 1826 - عدد الصفحات: 1042
...often condemned for its levity, and can never be relished for its point, is engraved upon the ledge: . Life is a jest, and all things show it ; I thought so once, but now I know it. Underneath are the affectionate lines in which Pope essayed to commemorate his merits...

Hansard's Parliamentary Debates

Great Britain. Parliament - 1879 - عدد الصفحات: 1136
...they would defend Asia Minor ; and in the words of Gay'a epitaph, he believed the whole thing was " A jest, and all things show it ; I thought so once, and now I know it ! " SIE JOHN KENNAWAY thought he should reduce the discussion to a practical turn by not following...

A Descriptive, Explanatory, and Critical, Catalogue of Fifty of the Earliest ...

John Landseer - 1834 - عدد الصفحات: 534
...The couplet which (copied from his own works) is inscribed on the tomb of our poetical fabulist— " Life is a. jest, and all things show it: I thought so once, and now—I know it," with the change of a single word, would not ill serve as an exposition—at least...

On the beauties, harmonies and sublimities of nature: with remarks ..., المجلد 3

Charles Bucke - 1837 - عدد الصفحات: 422
...more idle heads than one : Even Gay took it up, and caused it to be placed on his tombstone. T/ife is a JEST, and all things show it, I thought so once ; but now I know it. This distich calls to my mind PEREDA'S picture of the Desengano de la Vida, at...

Travels in Europe, Viz., in England, Ireland, Scotland, France, Italy ...

Wilbur Fisk - 1838 - عدد الصفحات: 742
...epitaphs ; among others, the facetious poet, John Gay, has the following, written by himself : — " Life is a jest, and all things show it; I thought so once, and now I know it" Not so — by this time he has doubtless discovered that life is a momentous reality : short, it is...




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