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. The Seasons: And The Castle of Indolence - Page 62by James Thomson - 1891 - 436 pagesFull view - About this book
| James Thomson, Patrick Murdoch - 1788 - 326 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 fhoot, To pour the frefh inftruftion o'er the mind, To breathe th' enlivening fpirit, and to fix The... | |
| William Scott - 1789 - 416 pages
...things, believcth all things, hopethall things, endureth all things. St Paul. 14. Delightful tafkJ to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to fcoot, To pour the frefli initruflion o'er the mind, To b*e;ithe the enlivening. fpirit, and to fix... | |
| Johann Joachim Eschenaburg - 1789 - 484 pages
...bloom. The 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 fhoor, To pour the frefh inftruction o'er the mind, To breathe th* enlivening fpirit, and to fix The... | |
| English poets - 1790 - 292 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 moot, 1 150 To pour the frefh inflrucYion o'er the mind, To breathe th' enlivening fpirit, and to fix... | |
| William Creech - 1791 - 346 pages
...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... | |
| John Adams - 1791 - 500 pages
...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 - 1792 - 556 pages
...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... | |
| 1794 - 954 pages
...Then infant reafon grows apace, and call» For the kind hand of an affiduous care. Delightful talk ! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to fhoot, To pour the frcfh inftruition o'er the mind, To breathe th' enlivening (pint, and to fix The... | |
| James Lackington - 1794 - 346 pages
...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... | |
| James Lackington - 1795 - 562 pages
...direcl: them. Reafon grows apace, and call* " For the kind hand of an affiduous care. " Delightful ta(k ! to rear the tender thought, " To teach the young idea how to fhoot, " To pour the frefh inftrufUon o'er the mind, " To breathe th" enlivening fpirit, and to fix... | |
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