...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...