| 1876 - 818 Seiten
...cynical mood, summed up his experience in the following couplet, intended for his epitaph : — . " Life is a jest, and all things show it : I thought so once, but now I know it." We cannot let that couplet go without saying that life is a stern sort of jesting... | |
| Leopold von Orlich - 1845 - 342 Seiten
...contented, how many dissatisfied! The epitaph in Westminster Abbey involuntarily rose to my mind : " Life is a jest*, and all things show it: I thought so once, but now I know it." The rising sun on the 30th of July was the harbinger of * Would not dream be a... | |
| Leopold von Orlich - 1845 - 342 Seiten
...contented, how many dissatisfied ! The epitaph in Westminster Abbey involuntarily rose to my mind : " Life is a jest*, and all things show it : I thought so once, but now I know it." The rising sun on the 30th of July was the harbinger of * Would not dream be a... | |
| 1847 - 540 Seiten
...MRS. CHW ESLING. MECHANIC.— (See BLACKSJHTH.) MEDICINE. — (See DISIASE.) MEEKNESS — MILDNESS. 1. Of manners gentle, of affections mild, In wit, a man — simplicity, a child. POPE. 2. Though sprightly, gentle ; though polite, sincere ; And only of thyself a judge severe. BEATTIK.... | |
| 1847 - 440 Seiten
...of John Gay and Handel exhibit ! On the former is the epitaph written by himself and for himself : " Life is a jest, and all things show it; I thought so once, and now I know it." Before the figure of the other is placed the " Messiah," opened at the passage,... | |
| James Caughey - 1847 - 376 Seiten
...one's feelings are shocked by that foolish epitaph on Gay's slab, written, I believe, by himself: — " Life is a jest, and all things show it ; I thought so once, and now I know it." But then, even this may excite a train of thought which, though not tending to... | |
| British empire - 1847 - 856 Seiten
...uncomfortable amount of awe and veneration, we have a great deal of genuine love. The worthless couplet — " Life is a jest, and all things show it ; I thought so once, but now I know it" — the mere expression of a mood of the poet's mind, should never have been placed... | |
| 1847 - 796 Seiten
...with so prelatic a place. The man. too, on whose monument is inscribed his own impious couplet — ' Life is a jest, and all things show it, I thought so once, and now I know it,' has surely no claims to be honoured by a Church which regards all such ideas of... | |
| John Spence (jr.), Young physician - 1847 - 160 Seiten
...1553, and died in the year 1598." There again, in memory of Gay, is the following strange couplet : " Life is a jest, and all things show it ; I thought so once, but now I know it." And here is a record of one Matthew Prior, a poet and diplomatist, who wrote his... | |
| American Academy of Arts and Sciences - 1894 - 522 Seiten
...The words inscribed upon Gay's monument might, with equal truthfulness, be Caliguy's epitaph : — " Of manners gentle, of affections mild ; In wit, a man ; simplicity, a child." PAFEBS PUBLISHED. — MEDALS AND DIPLOMAS RECEIVED. 1837. New Principles on the Oscillations of Water,... | |
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