| Joseph Ritson - English poetry - 1793 - 388 pages
...; There patient fhow'd us the wife courfe to fteer, A candid cenfor, and a friend fevere ; 80 There taught us how to live ; and (oh ! too high The price for knowledge) taught us how to die. Thou Hill, whofe brow the antique ftruftures grace, Rear'd by bold chiefs of Warwick's noble race,... | |
| 1794 - 918 pages
...phy'd There patient Uiow'd us the wife courfe to (leer, A candid cenfor, and a friend fcvere; There taught us how to live ; and (oh '. too high The price for knowledge) taught us how to die. Thou hill, whofe brow the antique (Iruaurei grace, Rear'd by bold chiefs of Warwick's noble race, Why,... | |
| Samuel Ireland - Painters - 1794 - 398 pages
...man's character than by tranfcribing the following elegant couplet from his friend Tickel's elegy. " He taught us how to live ; and oh ! too high " The price of knowledge, — taught us how to die.1* MARTIN Folkes, who is reprefented at the" fame table with... | |
| John Bell - English poetry - 1797 - 424 pages
...fonjj ; There patient fhow'd us the wife courfcto fleer, A candid cenlbr and a friend feverc ; go There taught us how to live and (oh ! too high The price for knowledge) taught us how to die. Thou Hill! whofehrow the antique ftructures grace Hcar'd by bold chiefs of Warwick's noble race, •... | |
| 1797 - 700 pages
...melancholy alaft farewel, we may iuftly apply the lines which Tickell wrote on a fimilar occafion : " He taught us how to live; and, oh! too high The price of knowledge, taught us how to die." This excellent man clofed his fliort life on the i6th day of June,... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 516 pages
...: » There patient fhow'd us the wife courfc to (leer, A candid cenfor, and a friend fevere ; There taught us how to live; and (oh ' too high • The price for knowledge) taught us how to die. W Thou hill, whofe brow the antique (lruAure« grace, Rear d by bulfl clrefs of Warwick's noMe race,... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 714 pages
...likewise died himself in a short time. . , ..... InTickell's excellent ElSgy on his friend are these lines : ; He taught us how to live ; and, oh ! too high The price of knowledge, taught u& how to die. J In which he alludes, as he told Dr. Young, to this moving interview.... | |
| Samuel Johnson - Biography - 1801 - 424 pages
...: he likewife died him-* felf in a fhort time. In Tickell's excellent Elegy on his friend are thefe lines : He taught us how to live ; and, oh ! too high The price of knowledge, taught us how to die — in which he alludes, as he told Dr. Young, to this moving interview.... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 536 pages
...he likewife died felf in a fhort time. In Tickell's excellent Elegy on his friend are thefe lipes : He taught us how to live ; and, oh ! too high The price of knowledge, taught us how to die — in which he alludes, as he told Dr. Young, to this moving interview.... | |
| Great Britain - 1804 - 528 pages
...patient Piow'd us the wife courfc to de«r, A candid ccnfor, and a friend fevere ; There taught ushow to live; and (oh ! too high The price for knowledge] taught us how to die. Thou hill, whofe brow the antique druäure» grace, Rear'd by bold chiefs of Warwick's noble race,... | |
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