 | 1800 - 452 σελίδες
...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... | |
 | 1850 - 376 σελίδες
...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 . . ---... | |
 | Madame de Staël (Anne-Louise-Germaine) - 1800 - 410 σελίδες
...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 the young idea how to shoot , To pour the fresh instruction o'cr the mind , To breathe th'enlivening spirit and to fix The... | |
 | William Jay - 1801 - 46 σελίδες
...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 - 1801 - 642 σελίδες
...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, Patrick Murdoch - 1802 - 368 σελίδες
...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 the young idea how to shoot, To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind, To breathe th' enlivening spirit, and to fix The... | |
 | James Thomson - 1802 - 344 σελίδες
...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 the young idea how to shoot, To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind, To breathe th'enlivening spirit, and to fix The... | |
 | James Thomson - 1802 - 320 σελίδες
...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 the young idea how to shoot, To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind, To breathe th' enliv'ning spirit, and to fix The... | |
 | James Thomson - 1803 - 186 σελίδες
...the mother's hloom. Then infant reason grows apace, and calls For the kind hand of an assiduous care. 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 hreathe the enlivening spirit, and to fix The... | |
 | Philip Doddridge - 1803 - 666 σελίδες
...plantations, you are watering also yourselves^ ; and from these • Pror. iii. 17. f PsaL xix. 11. \ Delightful task ! To rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot, To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind, — and plant The generous purpose in the glowing... | |
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Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot... 
