| Henry Clissold - Christian biography - 1829 - 716 pages
...not : he likewise died himself in a short time. In Tickell's excellent elegy on his friend are these lines : — He taught us how to live, and Oh ! too high The price of knowledge, taught us how to die. Dd In which he alludes, as he told Dr. Young, to this moving interview.... | |
| Robert Chambers - American literature - 1830 - 844 pages
...song: There patient shewed as the wise course to steer, A candid censor, and a friend severe ; There should be sorry to suffer any difference of sentiment to diminish my sensibility to virtue, or Thou hill whose brow the antique structures grace, Reared by bold chiefs of Warwick's noble race, Why,... | |
| John McCaffrey - Eulogies - 1832 - 48 pages
...follow thee only with our wishes and prayers ; but the lesson of thy example shall not be lost upon us. He taught us how to live, and oh ! too high, The price of knowledge ! taught us how to die. Is there not, my friends, a feeling of patriotic, of moral and... | |
| George Crabbe - 1834 - 362 pages
...TickclPs beautiful elegy on his friend there are these lines in allusion to this moving interview : — " He taught us how to live ; and oh ! too high The price of knowledge ! taught us how to die."] Whose looks proclaim'd that sunshine of the breast, \ That more... | |
| 1834 - 464 pages
...Tickell. There patient shew'd us the wise course to steer, A candid censor, and a friend sincere : There taught us how to live, and, (oh ! too high -• The price for knowledge) taught us bow to die. Passing over several other poems by Tickell, (among them, the still popular, and deservedly... | |
| John Jebb - 1835 - 404 pages
...of the same year (December 9. 1633), the Bishop of Limerick was himself taken to his reward : — ' He taught us how to live, and (oh ! too high The price of knowledge) taught us how to die!' The following brief notice, taken from a public journal, is so... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1837 - 582 pages
...alluded, in the following lines, as he told Dr. Young, to this moving interview with Lord Warwick : " He taught us how to live; and, oh ! too high The price of knowledge ! taught us how to die." JOHNSON'S Life of Addison.] XX.— BUTLER'S REMAINS, IN PROSE... | |
| Timothy Mather Cooley - 1837 - 370 pages
...servant had " come to his grave in a full age, like as a ghock of corn cometh in in his season." " He taught us how to live, and oh, too high The price pf knowledge, taught us how to die " Extract of a letter from his son Samuel to his brother William... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1838 - 716 pages
...: he likewise died himself in a short time. In Tickell's excellent " Elegy" on his friend are these 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.... | |
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