 | Robert H. Bremner - عدد الصفحات: 260
..."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 of high and low life.... | |
 | Samuel L. Macey - 1994 - عدد الصفحات: 224
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 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 2007 - عدد الصفحات: 764
...(adapted by Bertolt Brecht into Der Dreigroschenoper) 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,... | |
 | Agnes Woolsey - 1995 - عدد الصفحات: 304
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 | John Timpane - 1995 - عدد الصفحات: 196
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 | David Nokes - 1995 - عدد الصفحات: 600
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 | Bryan Gould - 1995 - عدد الصفحات: 312
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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. 
