Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot, To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind, To breathe the' enlivening spirit, and to fix The generous purpose in the glowing breast. A new English grammar - Page 105by Brandon Turner - 1840Full view - About this book
| Hannah More - 1800 - 96 pages
...A PASTORAL DRAMA FOR YOUNG LADIES. SEARCH AFTER HAPPINESS A PASTORAL DRAMA. THE TWELFTH EDITION. " To rear the tender thought, " To teach the young idea how to (hoot, " To pour riWfedh iuihui'hou o'er |4»»mind, " To breathe th'enliv'ning fpirit, and to fix... | |
| Apollo - 1800 - 224 pages
...Then infant reafon grows apace, and calls For the kind hand of an affiduous care. Delightful tafk ! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to lhoot, To pour the frefh inftruction o'er the mind, To breathe th' enlivening fpirit, and to fix The... | |
| 1800 - 452 pages
...devoid of affection for them, pleafures beyond expreffion will be derived from in Delightful talk ! to rear the tender thought ; To teach the young idea how to flioot, And pour the frefli inftrufiion o'er the mind. THOMSON. But you may fay, that, not having yourfelf... | |
| Madame de Staël (Anne-Louise-Germaine) - Literature - 1800 - 410 pages
...qui nous fait nous The infant reason grows apace and calls For the Kind hand of an assiduous care. Delightful task! to rear the tender thought , To teach...idea how to shoot , To pour the fresh instruction o'cr the mind , To breathe th'enlivening spirit and to fix The generous purpose in the glowing breast.... | |
| Gardening - 1850 - 376 pages
...human plants, on which duties they have now entered ? W ould they be less capable of engaging in the " delightful task, to rear the tender thought — to teach the young idea how to shoot," &c. ? Would you imitate their success? Then follow their example. R. FISH. Г ~ — L . . ---... | |
| William Jay - Bible - 1801 - 46 pages
...her infant daughter — to view from the window the manly exploits of her boy— " Delightful talk, to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to (hoot, 5 " To pour the frefh inftrudlion o'er the mind, " To breathe th'enlivening fpirit, and to fix... | |
| John Baillie - Newcastle upon Tyne (England) - 1801 - 642 pages
...burtl forth with energy and luftre on the ftage of human affairs ' Or, as the poet Delightful tafk ; to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to (hoot, To pour the frefti inftnuftion o'er the mind, To breathe th* enlivening fpirit, and to fix The... | |
| James Thomson - English poetry - 1802 - 320 pages
...the mother's bloom. Then infant reason grows apace, and calls For the kind hand of an assiduous care. Delightful task ! to rear the tender thought, To teach...pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind, To breathe th' enliv'ning spirit, and to fix The gen'rous purpose in the glowing breast. Oh speak the joy! ye,... | |
| James Thomson, Patrick Murdoch - 1802 - 368 pages
...the mother's bloom. Then infant reason grows apace, and calls For the kind hand of an assiduous care. Delightful task ! to rear the tender thought, To teach...pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind, To breathe th' enlivening spirit, and to fix The generous purpose in the glowing breast. Oh speak the joy ! ye,... | |
| James Thomson - 1802 - 344 pages
...the mother's bloom. Then infant reason grows apace, and calls For the kind hand of an assiduous care. Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, To teach...pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind, To breathe th'enlivening spirit, and to fix The generous purpose in the glowing breast, Oh speak the joy! ye,... | |
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