 | George White (M.C.P.) - 1865 - 100 pages
...illumined with faith, and fortified by resignation to the Divine will — " He taught us how to lire ; 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... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1866 - 298 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... | |
 | 1867 - 820 pages
..." 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, Dr. Watts contributed a paper to the... | |
 | 1867 - 824 pages
...a Christian can die." It suggested the lines in the touching eulogy of Tickell : " He taught us bow 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, Dr. Watts contributed a paper to the... | |
 | John Timbs - 1868 - 902 pages
...for you that you may see how a Christian can die !" he shortly after expired : "There taught us bow to live, and— oh, too high The price of knowledge ! — taught us how to die." The yonng Earl himself died in 1721. About the year 1762, the estate was sold to Henry Fox, the first... | |
 | Josiah Miller - 1869 - 668 pages
...Christian can die.' To this Tickell refers in his excellent ' Elegy,' thus :— Joseph Addison. 123 ' He taught us how to live ; and oh ! too high The price of knowledge ! taught us how to die. ' Dr. Johnson speaks of it as to the lasting praise of this poet. hat by the appreciative character... | |
 | Josiah Miller - 1869 - 656 pages
...may see how a Christian can die.' To this Tickell refers in his excellent ' Elegy,' thus :— ' He taught us how to live ; and oh ! too high The price of knowledge ! taught us how to die. ' Johnson speaks of it as to the lasting praise of this poet, Y the appreciative character of his criticisms... | |
 | John T. Watson - 1869 - 524 pages
...show'd us the wise course to steer, A candid censor, and a friend sincere ; He taught us how to I've ; and (Oh ! too high The price of knowledge) taught us how to die. TICKELL, on the Death of JJddison, Sure the last end Of the good man*is peace ! — how calm his exit... | |
 | William Clark Russell - 1871 - 550 pages
...song ; There patient, showed us the wise course 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. — Tfckell. The great satirist who alone knew how to use ridicule wkhout abusing it, who without inflicting... | |
 | Richard Henry Clarke - 1872 - 564 pages
...on Sunday, December 3, 1815. •One of his contemporaries has well exclaimed with the poet:— " He taught us how to live ; and oh ! too high The price of knowledge ! taught us how to die." The following notice of Archbishop Carroll's character, in the American Quarterly Review, is from the... | |
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He taught us how to live; and, oh! too high The price of knowledge, taught us how to die. 
