...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...

...the monuments of John Gay and Handel exhibit ! On the former, is the epitaph written by 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...

...said to have been written by Gay himself, and inscribed on the ledge just above Pope's epitaph : — Life is a jest, and all things show it ; I thought so once, but now I know it. The epitaph of Nicholas Howe, the dramatist, (also by Pope,) has been much admired for the pathos of...

...uncomfortable amount of a»c 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 on the monument,...

...The short epitaph on the front was written by himself. It is censured by some for its levity, — " Life is a jest, and all things show it : I thought so once, but now I know it." Underneath are these verses by Mr. Pope, who lived always in great friendship with Mr. Gay : — "...

...literature in which he excelled. The short epitaph by himself has been censured for its profane levity : Life is a jest and all things show it : I thought so onoe, and now. I know it." Below this epitaph is another by his friend Pope. Next is ROWE, and his...

...mistook seventeen for seventy-one. EPITAPH. THE following pithy epitaph appears in a country churchyard : Life is a jest, and all things show it, I thought so once, but now I know it. CRITICISM. TRUE criticism is the application of taste and good sense to the several fine arts. The...

...some of them labored. One, on the tomb of Gay, written by himself, struck me as too trifling : — "Life is a jest, and all things show it; I thought so once, and now I know it." The statue of the Bard of Avon holds a scroll in one hand, on which are engraved...

...does everybody, — it is on the tomb of John Gay, and was written by himself. It is as follows : " Life is a jest, and all things show it : I thought so once, and now I know it " Not far from this shocking epitaph is the grave of the author of " The Seasons"—...

...creations of his immortal genius. Here, too, was Gay, with these odd lines engraved below his bust: — "Life is a jest, and all things show it; I thought so once, and now I know it." There was, also, old Ben Johnson, with a countenance expressive of profundity and...