| Robert Taylor Conrad - 1846 - 900 страници
...characteristic firmness and Christian fortitude, the trying hour which separated him from this world. He taught us how to live, and (oh ! too high The price for knowledge,) taught us how to die. s FRANCIS LEWIS. FRANCIS LEWIS was born in the month of March, 1713, at Landaff in the shire of Glamorgan,... | |
| 1849 - 586 страници
...Bautícenme estas lágrimas que Cloro." Then, he thinks that the lines in Tickell's Elegy on Addison, " There taught us how to live, and (oh ! too high The price for knowledge) taught us how to die." are borrowed from Hooker, who speaks of persons who "taught the world no less virtuously how to die,... | |
| 1858 - 682 страници
...crime to" haue lou'd too well." Tickell, in his verses on the Death of Addjson, finely says : — " There taught us how to live ; and (oh ! too high The price for knowledge.) taught us how to die." Now this is not very remote from the following passage in the " Hymn to the Name and Honor of Saint... | |
| Robert Eldridge Aris Willmott - 1849 - 256 страници
...poem is prose in rhyme. He was literally correct without knowing it. Bead the famous couplet — He taught us how to live, and (oh ! too high The price for knowledge) taught us how to die ; and then turn to the fifth book of Hooker's Polity. He is treating of the prayer in the Litany against... | |
| Abraham Mills - 1851 - 616 страници
...serious 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 for knowledge) taught us how to die. Thou hill ! whose brow the antique structures grace, Reared by bold chiefs of Warwick's noble race ; Why, once... | |
| 1852 - 874 страници
...serious song There patient show'd us the wise course to steer, A candid censor, and a friend severe ; choice. Of such compose thy pack, But here a mca» Observe, nor the large hound whose brow the antique structures grace, Rear'd by bold chiefs of Warwick's noble race, Why, once so... | |
| Joseph Guy - 1852 - 458 страници
...wise course to steer, A candid censor, and a friend severe ; There taught us how to live ; and (O ! too high The price for 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, once... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1853 - 600 страници
...serious song . There patient show'd 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 for knowledge) taught us how to die. Thou hill whose brow the antique structures grace, Ilear'd by bold chiefs of Warwick's noble race, Why, once... | |
| Thomas Campbell - 1853 - 838 страници
...show'd us the wise course to steer, A candid censor, and a friend severe ; There taught us how to li\e; and (oh! too high The price for knowledge,) taught us how to die. Thou hill, whose brow the antique structures grace, Rear'd by bold chief« of Warwick's noble race, Why, once... | |
| Thomas Parnell, Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 366 страници
...serious song: There patient show'd 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 for 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, once so... | |
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