...serious 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...

...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...

...poem is prose in rhyme. He was literally correct without knowing it. Read 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...

...no parliament, but who carried the loving-tidings among the heathen of Hindoslan— " He taught them how to live, and (oh! too high The price for knowledge!) taught them how to die!" But even at home some chiefs of the church may be found * who form no unworthy fraternity...

...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 lor knowledge,) taught us how to die. RICHARD BENTLEY. 1662—1742 RICHARD BZHTLIT, one of the most...

...us the wise course to steer, A candid censor, and a friend severe ; There taught us how to li ve ; and (oh ! too high The price for knowledge,) taught us how to die. RICHARD BENTLEY. 1602—1742 r>i rn MI n BKSTLZT, one of the most learned men, and perhaps me greatest...

...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, Heared by bold chiefs of Warwick's noble race, Why, once so...

...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. RICHARD BENTLEY. 1002—1742 RICHARD BEHTLET, one of tlie most learned men, and perhaps (tie greatest...

...shrewd critick finds I'm caught, And cries out " better fed thun taught." SWIFT. — Pheasant and Lark. There taught us how to live ; and (oh ! too high The price for knowledge) taught us how to die. TICEELL.— To Earl Warwick on the Death of Addison. Thou, Whom soft-eyed Pity once led down from heaven,...

...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. RICHARD BENTLEY. 1GG2— 1742 RICUARII BEXTLET, one of the most learned men, and perhaps me ^renitrt...