 | Henry Clissold - 1829 - 716 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 die. Dd In which he alludes, as he told Dr. Young, to this moving interview. Having given directions to... | |
 | Richard Hooker - 1830 - 584 pages
...it short'neth their grief, should in reason be most acceptable. That which • [" He taught us how live, and, oh ! too high The price of knowledge, taught us how to die." TICKELL'S Elegy on Addison."] causeth bitterness in death, is the languishing attendance and expectation... | |
 | John McCaffrey - 1832 - 48 pages
...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 religious sublimity — arising from... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1834 - 362 pages
...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 than hope, that Heaven itself express'd.... | |
 | sir Henry Halford (1st bart.) - 1835 - 50 pages
...graves of Chaucer and of Cowley. Of the illness which terminated the life of Addison, — of him ' Who taught us how to live, and oh ! too high The price of knowledge, taught us how to die,' — I should have been glad to give you a similar short account. But my materials are not sufficiently... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1835 - 476 pages
...Tickell's excellent elegy on his friend are these lines: He taught us how to live ; and, oh ! too high Tlie 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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1837 - 534 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 AND VERSE. [From the Critical Review,... | |
 | John William Cole - 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 quoted in the pulpit. Alas, Expediency... | |
 | John William Cole - 1839 - 192 pages
...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 quoted in the pulpit. Alas, Expediency!... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 742 pages
...Tickell's excellent " Elegy" OB his friend are these lines : He taumln us how to live ; ami, oh ! loo 7G as he told Dr. Young, to this moving interview. Having given directions to Mr. Tickell for the publication... | |
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He taught us how to live; and, oh! too high The price of knowledge, taught us how to die. 
