 | James Hardie - 1801 - 526 страници
...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 admired works in... | |
 | Stephen Jones - 1811 - 490 страници
...nished ; only ihc first twelve books on his tomb : oftheCHd Testament being printed, ** Life Is a jest« and all things show It : I thought so once, but now I know it." occupying two vols. 4*0. the first of which was published in 1793, and the second in 1797, under the... | |
 | Benjamin Silliman - 1812 - 340 страници
...inscriptions upon them. On the latter is : " O rare Ben. Jonson !" On the former— " Lifi; is a joke, and all things show it; I thought so once, but now I know it." Surely a sepulchral monument is the last place on which a witticism ought to appear. The chapel of... | |
 | Louis Simond - 1817 - 478 страници
...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 futiles sans que la... | |
 | Louis Simond - 1817 - 476 страници
...trop léger pour le lieu et pour le sujet , et qui sentent UH peu l'impiété : Life is a jest and ail 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 futiles sans que la... | |
 | 1819 - 426 страници
...permitted every one to use his discretion in keeping it. *11. 1782.— JOHN GAY DIED. Life is aje*t, and all things show it; I thought so once, but now I know it. It was Gay's last request to Mr. Pope, that these words should be inscribed on his tomb : a remarkable... | |
 | Horatio (pseud.) - 1820 - 168 страници
...this life, which the appropriate exclamation of a great poetic man declared, " That life's a dream, and all things show it, I thought so once, but now I know it." After the funeral ceremonies attendant on the interment of the marchioness, which were observed with... | |
 | George Theodore Wilkinson - 1820 - 464 страници
...faith let graceless zealots fight, He can't be wrong whose life is in the right. Life's but a jest, and all things show it, I thought so once, but now I know it ! JT BRUNT, Tower of London. The following verses were written by Brunt, in Newgate, on the Sunday... | |
 | J. Taylor - 1822 - 220 страници
...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 of making a couplet... | |
 | 1832 - 698 страници
...up some fiend to lure me onwards to destruction ! — Oh, Paul, Paul ! save me!" " ' Life's a jest, and all things show it : I thought so once— but now I know it!'" Replied Paul, sarcastically, at this instance of attachment to life in one who bad so little to live... | |
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Life is a Jest, and all Things show it; I thought so once, but now I know it. 
