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" He taught us how to live; and, oh! too high The price of knowledge, taught us how to die. "
The Works of the English Poets: Prefaces - Page 75
by Samuel Johnson - 1781
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper;: Dryden, Smith, Duke ...

Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 620 pages
...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 diein which he alludes, as he told Dr. Young, to this moving interview. Having given directions to...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper, Volume 9

Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 620 pages
...Tickell's excellent Elegy on his friend are these lines : He taught us hon- to live; and, oh ! too high 1 The price of knowledge, taught us how to die — in which he alludes, as he told Dr. Young, to this moving interview. Having given directions to Mr. Tickell for the publication...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including ..., Volume 9

Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 664 pages
...excellent Elegy on his friend are these lines : īle taught us hmr to live; and, oh! too lii^h Tiie price of knowledge, taught us how to die— in which he alludes, as he told Dr. Young, to this moving interview. Having given directions to Mr. Tickell for the publication...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including ..., Volume 9

Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 664 pages
...Tickcll's excellent Elegy on his friend are these lines: He taught us limv to live; and, oh! too high Tiie price of knowledge, taught us how to die— in which he alludes, as he told Dr. Young, to this moving interview. Having given directions to Mr. Tickell for the publication...
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Works, Volume 10

Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 380 pages
...short time. rgnlk In Tickell's excellent elegy on his friend are these 1» ,. - lines. rope tali He taught us how to live ; and, oh! too high The price of knowledge ! taught us how to die — ig.^ in which he alludes, as he told Dr. Youngy to this mov. ing interview. |(jje• Having given...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, L. L. D.: In Twelve Volumes, Volume 10

Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 378 pages
...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 diein which he alludes, as he told Dr. Young, to this moving interview. Having given directions to...
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The Stranger: A Literary Paper ..., Volume 1

1813 - 458 pages
...scattered wide. Every thing is unarranged and rude. (To be Continued.) THE MORALITY OF ADDISON. He taught us how to live, and Oh ! too high The price of knowledge, taught us how to die. It is the appropriate, the transcendant praise of Addison, that he steadily, and uniformly, and in...
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Essays, Biographical, Critical and Historical, Illustrative of the ..., Volume 3

Nathan Drake - 1814 - 494 pages
...song; There patient shew'd us the wise coarse to steer, A candid censor, and a friend severe; There taught us how to live; and (oh! too high The price of knowledge) taught us how to die. Thou hill whose brow the antique structures grace, Rear'd by bold chiefs of WARWICK'S noble race, Why,...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

Samuel Johnson - 1820 - 430 pages
...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...knowledge, taught us how to die — in which he alludes, as he told Dr. Young, to this moving interview. Having given directions to Mr. Tickell for the publication...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 416 pages
...likewise died himself in a short time. In TickelPs excellent Elegy on his friend are these lines : He taught us how to live ; and, oh ! too high The price...knowledge, taught us how to die—- in which he alludes, as he told Dr Young, to this moving interview. v Having given directions to Mr Tickell for the publication...
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