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" There taught us how to live; and (oh! too high The price for knowledge) taught us how to die. "
The New London Magazine - Page 542
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A defence of the stage, or An inquiry into the real qualities of theatrical ...

John William Cole - 1839 - 192 pages
...poem, are the following lines in allusion to this incident, as Tickell himself informed Dr. Young : " He taught us how to live, and oh ! too high The price of knowledge, taught us how to die." f Yet the concluding lines of Cato's famous Soliloquy, have been...
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The Young men's magazine

British and foreign young men's society - 1839 - 216 pages
...prevail over the agonies of death. EGBERT HALL. MEMOIRS OF A PENITENT'S LIFE. CHAP. VIII. " He taught me how to live ; and (oh ! too high The price for knowledge) taught me how to die." TICKE LILONG after the sermon wa« ended I remained in the pew, lost in absorbing reflection....
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A Defence of the Stage: Or An Enquiry Into the Real Qualities of Theatrical ...

John William Cole - Theater - 1839 - 194 pages
...poem, are the following lines in allusion to this incident, as Tickell himself informed Dr. Young: " He taught us how to live, and oh ! too high The price of knowledge, taught us how to die." f Yet the concluding lines of Cato's famous Soliloquy, have been...
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Ecclesiastica; Or, the Church, Her Schools, and Her Clergy

Edward Mahon Roose - 1842 - 476 pages
...sweetness from his temper, and his friends felt that such a death-bed was a fitting close to such a life. " He taught us how to live, and, oh ! too high The price for knowledge, taught us how to die ! " CHAPTER VII. OUR GREAT LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC DIVINES. JOHN 1JONNK. — ROBBRT BURTON. — BISHOP...
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The Yale Literary Magazine, Volume 7

College students' writings, American - 1842 - 512 pages
...; for " Ne'er to these chambers where (he mighty rest, Since their foundation came a nobler guest ; He taught us how to live ; and (oh ! too high The price for knowledge) taught us how to die." We would recall his own reflections, when wont to withdraw from " the more gay and delightful" walks...
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The British Magazine and Monthly Register of Religious and ..., Volume 21

Theology - 1842 - 752 pages
...from his temper; and his friends felt, that such a death-bed was a fitting close to such a lite. ' He taught us how to live, and oh ! too high The price of knowledge1, taught us how to die.'" I must not speak warmly in praise of the book, for I do not...
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Select Works of the British Poets: In a Chronological Series from Ben Jonson ...

John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 826 pages
...song ; There patient show'd us the wise course to steer, A candid censor, and a friend severe ; There ^ D jkjٺ B9 J Thou Hill, whose brow the antique structures grace, Rear'd by bold chiefs of Warwick's noble race,...
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Readings in poetry: a selection from the best English poets, from Spenser to ...

Readings - English poetry - 1843 - 466 pages
...patient showed us the wide course to steer, A candid censor, and a friend severe; Then taught us how too live; and (oh! too high The price for knowledge,) taught us how to die. Thou hill, whose brow the antique structures grace, Reared by bold chiefs of Warwick's noble race;...
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The Saturday Magazine, Volume 22

Periodicals - 1843 - 280 pages
...Tickell's 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. WAR, even in the best state of an army, with all the alleviations...
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Bibliotheca Sacra and Theological Review, Volume 24

Theology - 1867 - 848 pages
...he, " and see how a Christian can die." It suggested the lines in the touching eulogy of Tickell : " He taught us how to live, and, oh, too high The price of knowledge, taught us how to die." At the time when Addison was furnishing his hymns to the public,...
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