...' 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...

...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...

...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...

...From all his ill-got honours flung, Turn'd to that dirt from whence he sprung. ON GAY," BY HIMSELF. LIFE is a jest, and all things show it ; I thought so once, but now I know it. ON GAY. WELL then, poor Gay lies underground ! So there's an end of honest Jack. So little justice...