John Gay — ‘My Own EpaphLife's a jt, and all thgs show .I thought so once, and now I know .’
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JOHN GAY
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John Gay > Quot > Quotable Quote. John Gay. John Gay (30 June 1685 – 4 December 1732) was an English poet and dramatist.
JOHN GAY
Poet and playwright John Gay was born Devon to an aristocratic though impoverished fay. Unable to afford universy, Gay went to London to… * john gay epitaph *
My Own Epaph, scribed on Gay’s monument Wtmster Abbey; also quoted as "I thought so once; but now I know ". Poet and playwright John Gay was born Devon to an aristocratic though impoverished fay. Unable to afford universy, Gay went to London to apprentice as a draper stead.
JOHN GAY
John Gay, English poet and dramatist, chiefly remembered as the thor of The Beggar’s Opera, a work distguished by good-humoured satire and technil assurance. A member of an ancient but impoverished Devonshire fay, Gay was ted at the ee grammar school Barnstaple. He was * john gay epitaph *
By 1714, Gay had started rrpondg wh Alexanr Pope and bee a member of the Scribles Club, a group that clud Jonathan Swift, John Arbuthnot, Thomas Parnell, and Lord Oxford.
JOHN GAY
Gay’s publitns datg om this time clu the poems Trivia: Or, the Art of Walkg the Streets of London (1716) and The Shepherd’s Week (1714).
JOHN GAY AND TRIVIA
The Scribles Club fluenced Gay’s major plays of this perd, The What D’Ye Call It (1715) and Three Hours After Marriage (1717), which was equently lked to Pope.
Gay was more or ls pennt on patronage his whole life and lived var semi-employed stat wh a number of aristocrats.