 | English poets - 1790 - 292 σελίδες
...degrees, The human bloflbm blows ; and every day, Soft as it rolls along, mews fome new charm, 1 145 The father's luftre, and the mother's bloom. Then...the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to moot, 1 150 To pour the frefh inflrucYion o'er the mind, To breathe th' enlivening fpirit, and to fix... | |
 | John Adams - 1791 - 500 σελίδες
...buds, it calls for their alfiduous care. How beautifully is the parental duty defcribed by the poet ! " Delightful tafk ! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to fhoot, To pour the frefli inftru&ion o'er the mind, T To To breath th' enlivening fpirit, and to fix... | |
 | James Lackington - 1791 - 366 σελίδες
...enquiring mind, but were totally at a -lofs what to afk for, and who had no friend to direft them. • Reafon grows, apace, and calls For the kind hand of an affiduous care. Delightful ufk ! to rear the tender thought, To teach the >oung idea how to Iboot, To pour the frefli inAruftion... | |
 | William Creech - 1791 - 346 σελίδες
...Ihment, and fhould be taught early, that when bf is old he may not depart from if. " Delightful talk! to rear the tender thought, " To teach the young idea how to fhoot, " To pour che frelh inftru&ion o'er the mind, " And breathe th' enlivening fpirit." •» IT... | |
 | James Lackington - 1792 - 556 σελίδες
...who had no friend to direcl: them. Reafon grows apace, and calls " For the kind hand of an afliduons care. " Delightful tafk! to rear the tender thought, " To teach the young idea how to fhoot, " To pour the frefh inftruction o'er the mind, " To breathe th' enlivening fpirit, and to fix... | |
 | James Thomson, Robert Heron - 1793 - 384 σελίδες
...rifes round, And mingles both their graces. By degrees, The human bloffom blows ; and every day, 1 145 Soft as it rolls along, mews fome new charm, The father's...care. Delightful tafk ! to rear the tender thought, 1150 To teach the young idea how to moot, To pour the frefh inftru&ion o'er the mind, To breathe th'... | |
 | James Thomson, Patrick Murdoch - 1793 - 308 σελίδες
...offspring rifes round, And mingles both their graces. By degrees, The human bloffom blows ; and every day, Soft as it rolls along, mews fome new charm,...For the kind hand of an affiduous care. Delightful talk ! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to (hoot, To pour the frefh inftruftion... | |
 | 1794 - 954 σελίδες
...both thoir grace«. By degree», The human bloffom blows; and every day, Soft as it rolls along, (hows fome new charm, The father's luftre, and the mother's bloom. Then infant reafon grows apace, and call» For the kind hand of an affiduous care. Delightful talk ! to rear the tender thought, To teach... | |
 | James Lackington - 1794 - 346 σελίδες
...them. • Reafbn, grows apace, and calls For the kind hand of an atliduous care. - Delightful talk ! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to fhoot, To pour the frefli inftrurtion o'er the mind, To breathe tV enliveinng fpirit, and to fix The... | |
 | Addison (pseud.) - 1795 - 616 σελίδες
...fruits : the fentiments become generous ; the carriage endearing ; and the life honourable and ufeful. Delightful tafk ! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to fhoot, To pour the frefh inftruftion o'er the mind. To breathe th'enliv'ning fpirit, and to fix The... | |
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Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot... 
