| John Wilson - 1856 - 442 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... | |
| 1857 - 574 pages
...song ; There patient show'd us the wise couree to steer, A candid censor, and a friend sincere ; There taught us how to live ; and, oh ! too high The price of knowledge, taught us how to die. Tkkctt'« Elegy on Adduon. " One may justly apply to this excellent author what Plato, in his alle.... | |
| Dublin city, univ - 1857 - 692 pages
...3. "A milk-white hind, immortal and unchanged, Fed on the lawns, and in the forest rang'd." 4. " He taught us how to live, and oh ! too high The price of knowledge, taught us how to die." I. — Mention to what speakers the following passages are attributed in " Paradise Lost," — on what... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1858 - 780 pages
...of his elegy on the death of Addison, he alluded to Uua Interview with the Earl of Warwick :— " He taught us how to live, and oh, too high The price of knowledge, taught us bow to die." t Bead— an admirable sketch of Addlson's life In Drake's Essays, vol. 1. Also an article... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1858 - 418 pages
...intervention, been withheld. In Tickell's excellent "Elegy" on his friend are these lines: He taught ns how to live; and, oh! too high The price of knowledge! taught as how to die — in which he alludes, as he told Dr. Young, to this moving interview. Having given... | |
| Mary Ann Harris Gay - 1859 - 254 pages
...us the wise course to steer, A candid censor and a friend sincere; He taught us how to live; and (0! too high The price of knowledge) taught us how to die." IN a retired yet delightful location, about miles from Charleston, reside Thomas Daniel and his amiable... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1860 - 766 pages
...his elegy on the death of Addison, he alluded 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... | |
| Thomas Gray - 1863 - 304 pages
...process of composition. . * The best couplet of Tickell's best poem is in his Elegy on Addison : " He taught us how to live ; and oh ! too high The price of knowledge, taught us how to die." Now compare the following : — "I have taught you, my dear flock, for above thirty years, how to live... | |
| George White (of St. Edmund's coll.) - 1865 - 84 pages
...whose closing hoars were illumined with faith, and fortified by resignation to the Divine will — " He taught us how to live ; and oh ! too high, The price of knowledge, taught us how to die." On Sunday afternoon (5th February), the Canons of the Chapter of Westminster assembled by the Cardinal's... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 784 pages
...lit* ck-gy on the death of AddLton, be aU"'leU to nils interview with the Earl of Warwick : — 41 He taught us how to live, and oh, too high The price of knowledge, taught us how to die." hrna— an admlralile iketch of Addison'* life In Drake** E»snyn, vol. 1. AIM an article In the *liiioa-tfii... | |
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