 | Thomas Parnell - 1866 - 358 страници
...serious song : There patient show'd us the -wise coarse 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 BO... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1866 - 726 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. T. TICKELL 579 THE COUNTRY LIFE ' I "HE damaske meddowes and the crawlinge streames JL sweeten and... | |
 | 1866 - 320 страници
...Man, to teach him how to live, And oh ! still harder lesson, how to die ! * Lines 3 1 6-3 1 9. * " There taught us how to live, and (oh ! too high The price for knowledge) taught us how to die." Tickelfs Lines on the Death of Addison. Scriptural Quotations* GENESIS. In the sweat of thy face f... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1867 - 752 страници
...The rich, the poor, the great, the small, Are levell'd : death confounds them all. Gay, Fables. He taught us how to live ; and (oh ! too high The price for knowledge) taught us how to die. Tickell. As man, perhaps, the moment of his breath, Receives the lurking principle of death ; The young... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench (abp. of Dublin) - 1868 - 458 страници
...serious song: There patient showed us the wise course to steer, A candid censor, and a friend severe; 80 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, Reare.l by bold chiefs of Warwick's noble race, Why, once... | |
 | Treasury - 1869 - 474 страници
...him how to live, And oh ! still harder lesson, how to die.J * Cf. GRAY,>. 229. t Cf. YOUNG,/. 21i. t There taught us how to live ; and (oh ! too high The price for knowledge) taught us how to die. T1CEELL on the Death cfAMiscm. JAMES BEATTIE. 1735-1803. AH ! who can tell how hard it is to climb... | |
 | English poems - 1870 - 722 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 so... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench - 1870 - 466 страници
...song : There patient showed us the wise course to steer, A candid censor, and a friend severe ; 80 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 so... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1870 - 644 страници
...sent for you that you may see how a Christian can die." To this his friend Tickell alludes — " He taught us how to live and — oh, too high , The price for knowledge ! — taught us how to die," The only failing imputed to this great man is occasional excess in wine, and this, we suspect, has... | |
 | Robert Shelton Mackenzie - 1871 - 520 страници
...homily, that nothing but religion would give him comfort on the death-bed. It might be said, — " He taught us how to live, and (oh, too high The price for knowledge ! ) taught us how to die." On the occasion of his centenary, when the memory of Walter Scott will be socially and publicly honored... | |
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There taught us how to live; and (oh! too high The price for knowledge) taught us how to die. 
