...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...

...holy text around 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...

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

...life are often frivolous, and always unwarrantable. THE FARMER AND THE HORSE. ' 'Tis a vain world, and all things show it; I thought so once, but now I know it1.' Ah ! Gay ! is thy poetic page The child of disappointed age? Talk not of threescore years and...

...conjnred 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...

...often condemned for its levity, and can never be relished for its point, is engraved upon the ledge: . Life is a jest, and all things show it ; I thought so once, but now I know it. Underneath are the affectionate lines in which Pope essayed to commemorate his merits as an author, and his character...

...condemned for its levity, and can never be relished for its point, is engraved upon the ledge: — Life is a jest, and all things show it; I thought so once, but now I know it. Underneath are the affectionate lines in which Pope essayed to commemorate his merits as an author, and his character...

...French thorough and thorough; He married Sarah Jennings, spinster, IN NEWINGTON CHURCH-YARD. Life's but a jest, And all things show it, — I thought so once, But now I know it.* IN NEWINGTON CHURCH-YARD, ON JAMES BLACKBURN, A BLACKSMITH. My sledge and hammer lie declin'd, My bellows,...

...conjured 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 DOW I know it l' " replied Paul, sarcastically, at this instance of attachment to life in one who had...

...The couplet which (copied from his own works) is inscribed on the tomb of our poetical fabulist— " Life is a. jest, and all things show it: I thought so once, and now—I know it," with the change of a single word, would not ill serve as an exposition—at least...