Taught. Grocott's Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?

Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?.

Taught


Here some shrewd critick finds I’m caught, And cries out “better fed than taught.” Swift.—Pheasant and Lark.	1
There taught us how to live; and (oh! too high The price for knowledge) taught us how to die. Tickell.—To Earl Warwick on the Death of Addison.	2
From this example still the rule shall give, And those it taught to conquer, teach to live. Congreve.—The Birth of the Muses.	3
Thou, Whom soft-eyed Pity once led down from heaven, To bleed for man, to teach him how to live, And oh! still harder lesson, how to die! Dr. Porteus.—Death a Poem, Line 316. (The idea is Tickell’s.)	4