...despis'd ev'ry soul she met here, And now she's in th' other, she thinks it but queer. MY OWN EPITAPH. LIFE is a jest, and all things show it; I thought so once, but now I know it. CONTENTS Of THE SECOND VOLUME OF GAY. Page EPISTLES. I oa Lady. Occasioned by the arrival of her Royal...

...and was buried in 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, hut now I know it." GAZA (THEODORE) a very eminent grammarian, and translator of Greek writings, born...

...of the earth seek the glory of the Lord of heaven! The inscription on one of these tombs, o " Life's a jest, and all things show it; I thought so once, but now 1 know it," has led to the very suitable reflection :— "Life is a solemn scene ; this Gay now knows;...

...was buried in 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 GESNER, (SOLOMON) the celebrated author of the death of Abel, and many other admired works in the...

...was buried in Westminster Abbey with this epitaph, written by himself, engraved on his tomb :— " Life is a jest, and all things sho.w it; " I thought so once ; but now J know it." GESNER, (SOLOMON) the celebrated author of the death of Abel, and many other admired works...

...every soul she met here, And, now she's in t' other, she thinks it but queer. MY OfF.V EPITAPH. Lire is a jest, and all things show it : I thought so once, but now 1 know it • _ A MOTTO TOR THE OPERA or MVTIUS sc;tvor.A '. WHO hereblumes words, or verses, songs,...

...life, are often frivolous, and always unwarrantable, THE FARMER AMD THE HOUSE, " 'Tis a vain world, and all things show it, I thought so once, but now I know it V Ah I GAY ; is thy poetic page The child of disappointed age ? Talk not of threescore years and ten,...

...uj'ten frivo~ ¡uns, and always unwarrantable. TUB FARMER ASD THE HO US*. lt 'Tis av:iin world, and ail things show it^ I thought so once, but now I know it '." Ah! GAY; is thy poetic page Tue child of disappoints! age ? Talk not of threescore ye^rs and ten....

...himself) engraven 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...