...illusion which, in a manner most wonderful, his lordship has contrived to gather around his name. " Life is a jest, and all things show it ; I thought so once, and now I know it," will be an appropriate epitaph wherewith to deck the marble monument that the grateful...

...' I love as my own soul ' — if a stone should mark his grave, to write on it these lines : — ' Life is a jest, and all things show it, I thought so once, but now I know it.' ' There is none like you, living or dead,' were Gay's last words to his ever kind friend. Pope wrote...

...Life is a navigation. SENECA.— Of a Happy Life, Chap. XXI. Life's a tragedy. SIB WALTER RALEIGH. Life is a jest, and all things show it : I thought so once, but now I know it. GAY.— "My Own Epitaph." Life is but a day at most. BcRN8. — Friars' Carse Hermitage. Longest life...

...startling a contrast, one is tempted U> иу, in the flippant words of Gay's neighbouring epitaph : " Iiife is a jest, and all things show it; I thought so once, and now I know it." It may be doubted, after all, whether the tombs before us may not preach the old...

...the half-joking, half-melancholy inscriptions on some Greek sepulchres, as Gay's own on himself:— ' Life is a jest, and all things show it : I thought so once, but now I know it.' The famous distich of Pope on Sir Isaac Newton is one of the grandest we know, but is scarcely referable...

...fears the end ; Who has the worst still hopes his game will mend. Mock Epitaph on Gay, by himself. Life is a jest, and all things show it : I thought so once, but now I know it. On the magnificent Bridge built by John first Duke of Marlborough over a small Rivulet in Blenheim...

...fears the end ; Who has the worst still hopes his game will mend. Mock Epitaph on Gay, by himself. Life is a jest, and all things show it : I thought so once, but now I know it. On the magnificent Bridge built by John first Duke of Marlborough over a small Rivulet in Blenheim...

...the half-joking, half-melancholy inscriptions on some Greek sepulchres, as Gay's own on himself:— ' Life is a jest, and all things show it: I thought so once, but now I know it.' The famous distich of Pope on Sir Isaac Newton is one of the grandest we know, but is scarcely referable...

...portion 6f God's graces, for her 6wn share." ROSAMOND , RATHOAR ROAD , DUHLIN , March 23, 1860. 17 "Life is a jest, and all things show it; I thought so once, but now I know it." Gay's Epitaph. 1ms life 'sa jest, you wicked poet; Living, you thought so; dead, you know 'it. But...

...and power, A seeming fortress, but within a tomb, Containing relics of man's certain doom. ******* H Life is a jest, and all things show it ; I thought so once, but now I know it. Gay's Epitaph. ' I VHE sea was calm, the breeze was mild, On all mankind the summer smiled ; As many...