 | Oliver Goldsmith, Sir James Prior - 1850 - 558 pages
...following lines, as he told Dr. Young, to this moving interview with Lord Warwick : ' He taught us how 10 live ; and, oh ! too high The price of knowledge ! taught us how to die.' " JOHNSON'S Life of Addison ] • [" Mr. William Longueville was a conveyancing lawyer, and a bencher... | |
 | Samuel Prout Newcombe - 1851 - 416 pages
...tickell's excellent elegy on the death of addison, are these lines, " he taught us how to live, and, oh I too high the price of knowledge, taught us how to die!" in which the poet alludes to thil moving interview. — walkina. (2.) waller, the poet, going? to = king james,... | |
 | 1853 - 728 pages
...him in death, will со*1853.] [May dially address this honorable testimony to his memory, — 4 He taught us how to live, and oh, too high The price of knowledge, taught us bow to die.' " He then discourses, at length, upon the power of religion to sustain and console the... | |
 | 1853 - 402 pages
...joy at their sensible approach, is a fact which speaks volumes in favor of the religion of Him Who taught us how to live; and Oh ! too high The price of knowledge, taught 113 how to die! The truth of the above sentiment is strikingly illustrated in the history of the last... | |
 | 1853 - 724 pages
...cor1853.] dially address this honorable testimony to his memory, — • lie taught ne how to Uve, and oh, too high The price of knowledge, taught us how to die.1 " He then discourses, at length, upon the power of religion to sustain and console the believer,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 344 pages
...in a short time. JOSEPH ADDISON. In Tickell's excellent elegy on his friend are these lines : " He taught us how to live ; and — oh, too high The price...! — 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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1854 - 796 pages
...his elegy on the death of Addison, he jtlluded to this Interview with the Earl of Warwick :— " He taught us how to live, and oh, too high The price of knowledge, taught us how to die." apply to him what Plato, in his allegorical language, says of Aristophanes, that the Graces, having... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 450 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 — " t in which he alludes, as he told Dr. Young,84 to this moving interview. Having given directions... | |
 | Cyclopaedia, Henry Gardiner Adams - 1854 - 762 pages
...dust. Shirley. Ho patient show'd us the wise course to steer, A candid censor, and a friend sincere; He taught us how to live; and (Oh! too high The price of knowledge,) taught us how to die. TicMl. That I must die, it is my only comfort; Death is the privilege of human nature, And life without... | |
 | John Wilson - 1856 - 444 pages
...which it will be, if you publish in three vols. crown octavo, One guinea and a half in boards — " You taught us how to live, and oh ! too high The price of such a lesson — how to die ! " So much for blarney — now for breakfast. Ho ! ho ! — the table... | |
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He taught us how to live; and, oh! too high The price of knowledge, taught us how to die. 
